Why is Bitbucket so antiquated? (2GB repository size)

Swapit Limited

We completely don't understand this limit nor your explanation that you want to provide fast access, etc.

 

A 2GB limit sounds almost like from Windows 95 days when you couldn't have a file larger than that. Nowadays, storage (even cloud storage) is cheap, bandwidth is fast and affordable, computing power is available in abundance. 

 

So why do you really still limit the repository size to 2GB?

 

(A Facebook-style company with a single large repository could never host its source code on Bitbucket. Yet, aren't these the poster-childs you'd like to have as customers?) 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I'm guessing you are talking about Cloud Bitbucket, which is aimed mostly at small to medium sized organisations who don't want to run their own hardware, and expect some speed and flexibility in what the products give them.  There are moves to try to increase the Cloud offerings for larger users, but it's not going to happen soon.

2Gb repositories for larger organisations is currently an area where Atlassian would be looking to sell you Server editions - ones you run yourself on bigger servers, and eventually scaling up to Bitbucket Data Centre which would consider 2Gb to be "a minor repo".