SVN Hosting Suggestions

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Sorry for the off topic. My Mac is getting ready to die so I have an appointment at the Genius Bar tomorrow. I’m pretty sure the “Geniuses” are just going to tell me that they need to take my laptop away and send it to the mothership for the proverbial anal probe. So I’ll be without my primary development machine for the first time. I was thinking I wanted to have a bit more flexibility in my development and figure that a SVN server is the way to go. Does anyone have suggestions for SVN Hosting? Research seems to indicate CVSDude and Wush are the best options. Anyone tried either of those?

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  • Ethan Cane

    How big a repository are you looking at hosting?

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    My current Flex Builder 3 project folder is 550 megs, so I’m looking for something in the 1-2 gig range.

  • Robbie van der Blom

    Why throw away the money, if you’ve got a spare server just install it on that machine. Doesn’t Adobe provide access to a SVN server?

  • http://www.richardleggett.co.uk Richard Leggett

    I’ve used CVSdude and it’s fairly quick to set up, but at those file sizes it might get cost prohibitive. If you have a shared VMS hosting at somewhere like Dreamhost, then you can install subversion in no time at all and have unlimited space for a very small amount per month. I mention Dreamhost because they make it easy. I’m with Westhost, which is extremely low priced but lacks a lot of the management tools, for example I had to compile subversion from source, with Dreamhost I set it up for someone else in a couple of hours due to the RedHat package manager that is on there making it really straight forward, and instructions being found on their forums.

    To give Westhost credit, they always reply in a timely manner and their forums also had detailed instructions from another user.

    If you can spare the hours, it works out a lot cheaper and you can create repositories (svncreate) till your heart’s content, as well as managing users (auth.cfg) so other people can login or have read access.

  • http://TheJoyOfFlex.com David Coletta

    Back in the early days of Virtual Ubiquity we ran our SVN repository off of an inexpensive account at Dreamhost. Worked great.

  • http://www.filipejorge.com deejorg

    Hello

    http://www.codespaces.com

    I’m trying this host. They offer 45 days of free trial.

  • http://www.kelvinluck.com/ Kelvin Luck

    I’d second the suggestion of dreamhost. You can set up repositories (public or private) and create users with access to them in seconds through their web panel. And you get 500GB (yes 500 gigabytes!) for about $10 a month.

  • http://www.nodans.com Dan Wilson

    Ryan,

    I use http://www.svnrepository.com/

    It is cheap, reliable and dead simple to use.

    DW

  • http://ludicast.com Nate Kidwell

    I’ve been extremely happy with cvsdude for both corporate and personal projects. Plus, like everywhere else, they usually have some One Day Only Sale happening every day.

  • http://hat6.com Dusty Jewett

    I’ll nth the suggestion for Dreamhost. It doesn’t have the fancy interface that CVSDude has (I work with both on a daily basis), but the disk space is enormous, and service is great.

    That said, CVSDude’s fancy interface makes it really easy to configure your repositories, add users and groups, and setup Trac/Bugzilla. If you only have three developers working on a project, CVSDude doesn’t make sense… but if you have 50 people working on a project, CVSDude starts to fit the needs.

  • Phillip Kerman

    mediatemple.net supports it on my very nominal web hosting account.

  • Marcus

    I’ve been using CVSDude for the last 6 months now for our work repository, and haven’t had any issues at all. Seems to be very reliable, and it’s pretty cheap too. It just works.

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Hey guys, thanks a lot for the info. I’ll probably check out Dreamhost first and then look at CVSDude. I don’t want to do my own server because I don’t have time to keep it patched and maintained. Otherwise that would be a really good route to go through.

  • http://blog.vixiom.com Alastair

    There’s also http://www.beanstalkapp.com pricey but it’s point and click.

  • http://ludicast.com Nate Kidwell

    I’ll be a dreamhost nay-sayer.

    It’s something of a chop-shop, and I would NEVER keep a mission critical app on there. If you have any IP interest in what you’re doing, you should not use shared hosting like them in the first point.

    I moved my subversion from dreamhost to cvsdude, even though dreamhost has an easy-to-manage interface in their panel.

    Dreamhost does have great per-month bandwidth-and-storage though, & I use them for streaming non mission-critical stuff and basic hosting needs. So I’m not completely down on them. It’s a good provider if you’re preparing for a Slashdotting.

    But just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should do it. I pay for both dreamhost and cvsdude because they satisfy different needs. The same reason doctors specialize. And men cheat on their wives.

  • Keith

    Let us know what you decide on since we’ve been looking for the same ourselves!

  • http://www.redflymarketing.com/ Dave Davis

    We use CVSdude and it’s great. The automatic backups and alerts are worth the price, even the starter price.We moved from trac and have not looked back.

    There is also a handy chart here you might be interested in:
    http://www.svnhostingcomparison.com/

  • http://jwopitz.wordpress.com jwopitz
  • http://nitobi.com Brian LeRoux

    +1 for http://www.svnrepository.com

    Super reliable and cheap. You should give GIT a consideration too.

  • http://www.johnwilker.com John Wilker

    I use wush, seem cool, haven’t ever been down when I needed them.

  • Luke

    Don’t forget that a company like CVSDude also gives you Trac or Bugzilla support with your VC repos. Having used CVSDude with an SVN/Trac combination, any serious project can’t go without some sort of issue tracking system. Setting this up yourself (not to mention maintaining it) becomes a bit more complicated. For me it definitely pays for itself ten times over…

  • http://www.tink.ws/blog Tink

    We use MT.

  • http://wush.net/ Michael

    I am writing from wush.net. Thanks for the mention John.

    If any of you would like to give us a try, you can use the coupon code “TRIAL000″ (no quotes) during signup to get the first month free. Feel free to contact sales@wush.net if you have any questions.

  • http://www.usuxxors.com Jack Page

    I can personally recommend Wush, never had a problem with them.

    I’d stay away from Dreamhost personally. I’m actually surprised to see all the recommendations for them, usually all I’ve ever heard is how unrealiable they are. When I got into site creation a couple years ago I was practically scared away from them after browsing a few forums for info. Guess the experience just varies wildly from person to person.