I have not used the virtual appliance, but i'll strongly recommend gitlbhq, we are using it to cater hunderds of repos and 1700+ users. Initially we struggled to maintain gitorious based system (due bugs, no support for private repos etc)
my 2 cents On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]>wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of John Coleman > > > > Yale University is considering whether to purchase the Github > > Enterprise virtual appliance to run on premises. We'd like to hear > > from existing customers about the appliance and the support they > > receive from Github. If you'd be willing to speak with us, please > > email me privately at [email protected], or, if you wish, share > > your experiences with the list. > > I'm currently supporting a site using Github Enterprise. You pay per block > of 20 users, per year. They have different ways you can run it - In our > case, we downloaded a vmware virtual appliance, and we simply launched it > in > our existing vmware infrastructure. > > If you have a lot of users, and/or it's a free open source product, then > most likely you're better off to use a "standard" git server without > github, > or just use github itself (because they will host unlimited open source > products for free.) If you're considering github enterprise, I have to > assume, it's because you have a private product that you will not expose to > massive numbers of people. You want to host it yourself for reasons of > security/privacy. > > Out of the box, it supports both https and ssh. This is important, because > many users find themselves in corporate networks that disallow outbound > ssh. > The main difference between the two is: ssh is authenticated using keys, > so > you never have to enter a password. https is authenticated via password, > and your git client has the optional of being configured to cache the > password for a limited time, but not for infinite time or beyond reboots. > > The main advantage of GHE versus a standard git server is: GHE wraps a > bunch of social stuff together. Wiki, bug tracker, etc are included > out-of-the-box. Zillions of plugins also exist for all the usual social > network / collaborative software development suspects. If you want, you > can > try to "build your own github" by going and building/installing all the > social tools you want with your vanilla git server. They all exist; it's > just a question of effort versus money to buy the prebuilt thing. > > Unfortunately the GHE product doesn't have any way to do backups. So > hopefully you put it on some storage where you can snapshot & backup > yourself. Or, maybe the only stuff you care about is the actual contents > of > the repository, in which case, you can simply create some cron job > somewhere > to clone/pull your repo. That would count as "backup" depending on your > needs. > > Their support is pretty good - I just email them, and typically within an > hour or two, I have a very knowledgeable reply. There is no emergency > phone > support or anything like that. > > Anything else you would like to know? > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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