> we're sending them $250/dev/yr for (what is in all honesty) hosting a bunch of static text files.
You know, you can just host your own code forge. Or you can just drop gitolite on a server. Or pull directly from each others' dev machines on a LAN.
GitHub is not git.
Our 20-dev company is unfortunately exactly the wrong size to justify self-hosting. We're not large enough that it can be someone's dedicated role, and we're not small enough that we can be experimental around our vendors for something so critical to our output.
We're actively looking into alternatives outside of GitHub though.