Assembla has been working great for us, and it's free. Currently we have 20+ repositories hosted there, both git and svn, all free. Not saying it's better than Github, but so far, we haven't felt a need to use github, since there's a good free solution that fits our needs.

So as much as I like everything else about Pagoda, if they're forcing us to go github route with no alternatives, I won't be checking it out.