15 engineers on Hacker News describe using GitHub Enterprise Server first-hand: 4 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We moved off a big GHE footprint because the support for it was getting abysmal”
regret · production · kami23 · 2026-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use this in Gov Cloud with GitHub Enterprise Server. It is working great as a POC.”
endorse · personal · rubiconjosh · 2023-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“GH Enterprise was a weird black box VM back then that we had to hack into to make work for whatever reason.”
regret · production · foobarbazetc · 2021-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It felt like a massive burden was lifted when we moved to Github Enterprise.”
endorse · production · vishbar · 2020-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Github based review requires far more scrolling and makes it difficult to find comments that were made and how they were resolved.”
regret · production · u801e · 2018-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used GitHub Enterprise... I don't see what's so great about GitHub Enterprise (especially for the cost).”
regret · production · pfranz · 2017-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Github Enterprise at my new job since recently and it is by far the poorest of tools I have ever used to review code.”
regret · production · jtietema · 2016-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is, of course, based heavily on Github's suggested practices, since we use Github Enterprise at work.”
endorse · production · gknoy · 2015-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My company uses GitHub Enterprise. Unless we have some sort of deal/discount above the built-in, we're paying over $30,000/year for it and we run it on our own servers.”
endorse · production · mdasen · 2015-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“because of the $5000 thing, which pisses me off and makes me feel like I'm being ripped off at the same time!”
mixed · production · meh01 · 2013-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from GitHub Enterprise to BitBucket Server several years ago and are pretty (80%) happy with the decision.”
neutral · production · foobarbazetc · 2018-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched from GitLab to GitHub Enterprise at work, our CI environment just needed to point somewhere else.”
neutral · production · favorited · 2018-01-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use GitHub for our open-source projects, GitHub:Enterprise for our internal code”
neutral · production · HiJon89 · 2017-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ReviewNinja comes from the GitHub Enterprise context (as we use GitHub Enterprise in our company)”
neutral · production · Spitfire777 · 2014-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The company I work for has moved a lot of its' development to a github enterprise deployment, and it's been interesting.”
neutral · production · tracker1 · 2013-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?