[ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

[Gareth France]

> Not helpful for solving the immediate problem I know, but for the
> future the issue would be easy to solve if you kept a master copy of
> your source in a version control system such as git.  Then if the site
> becomes compromised you can just replace it with the correct code.
> Git is trivially easy to setup and start using.
>
> Colin
>
I have taken a quick peek and it says git-hub is free for public, open 
source projects. I of course require private hosting as I wouldn't want 
people to peek behind my site. So is there a free option for doing this? 
I really don't have a budget for doing this sort of thing.