British Inside

An Englishman living in small town America

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    Next week all the Telligenti developers - me included - are going to Dallas for another get-together. Should be a lot of fun in the evenings, but I have some work to do before I go. Although I have a kickass laptop I do all my work on the desktop, so I'm busy moving things over so I can continue working next week.

    There's a surprising amount to do - FTP setup, RDC, install all those utilities you can't do without: TortoiseSVN, WinMerge, DeleteSVN reg file, SQL connections, and of course source code.

    Lots of source code.

    Now, my personal stuff is not in a repository right now and that makes me nervous anyway. I used to have a subversion hosted account somewhere but that got cancelled or transferred to Telligent (don't remember which) when I joined. So last night I decided to setup another account and get all my web sites source code checked in.

    After a brief trial of another company's hosting I settled on www.hosted-projects.com and I'm loving it so far.

    • Lots of information on their site
    • easy sign up with no money for 7 days (so you can get all setup and working before handing over a dime)
    • great control panel
    • unlimited repositories (much better than having one with sub-folders)
    • unlimted users
    • ACLs for each repository
    • fast
    • secure (cheaper hosts dont use SSL on their site even)

    So I got all my sites checked in and this morning I checked out on my laptop. Again, nice fast connection so at this point I highly recommend them. I went for the $15/month plan and get a bugzilla installation too; never used that but might be handy for something.

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    Posted: Sunday, August 12, 2007 7:52 AM by James

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    communityserver相关博客聚合 said:

    Next week all the Telligenti developers - me included - are going to Dallas for another get-together.

    # August 12, 2007 6:10 AM

    Floyd Price said:

    Have you tried Code Spaces for subversion hosting?
    # November 15, 2007 3:30 AM

    James said:

    Floyd, no, but I know a few people who are using it. I have a dozen or so websites though - so I'd like at least 20 repositories.

    That gets expensive on your plan - with www.hosted-projects.com i get 1gb and *unlimited* repositories for $15.

    I'd have to pay $40 for repositories with you, right?

    # November 15, 2007 4:45 AM

    Floyd Price said:

    Yes this is true, we don't attempt t o be the cheapest, however we do attempt to be the best ;-) Instead of rolling out Trac and Bugzilla like everybody else does we have built our own issue tracking, project management system that all integrates nicely. We do also offer customized plans, so maybe we could give you the repositories that you need but give you less disk space (5gb may be more than you need)?
    # November 16, 2007 1:53 AM

    James said:

    I agree that bugzilla is best left alone. But as for best vs cheapest thats hard for me to agree with. Subversion hosting seems like a commodity to me - just like I don't care at all about my toothbrush I only want my subversion hoster to meet basic standards.

    Uptime, reliability are factors of course, but I haven't had any issues and don't expect any. Web hosting isnt viewed as a commodity any more (by me) but subversion hosting is. A lot less moving parts I guess, but its also not public facing.

    Your pretty website will attract more customers, but thats just better marketing. You'll have a hard time convincing me that your service is "the best".

    But, hey, go ahead. If you can persuade me then you've proved your point and google will show it :)

    # November 16, 2007 3:11 AM

    Floyd Price said:

    Well I think your right about the Subversion Hosting being a commodity, at least to a certain extent. What we are trying to achieve with Code Spaces is more than plain old Subversion Hosting, we have built a development and collaboration platform that is built around Subversion (Because its great!), but also ads a layer of value on top of Subversion. We really want people to use the Issue Tracking features and link Work Items to Subversion Commits, we want them to use the Project Milestones feature to represent the iterations a project will go through. Believe me, having the ability to instantly see which work items belong to a particular release and what subversion activity occurred is a god send, especially when you go through a few iterations and want some sort of audit trail. Please give us a try if any of the above appeals ;-) BTW I love your "British Inside" logo I would put something like that on our website if my business partners would let me ;-)
    # November 16, 2007 9:29 AM

    British Inside said:

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    # November 16, 2007 1:00 PM

    ASPInsiders said:

    Ok, I ought to give credit where it's due because you won't find this great example of "how

    # November 16, 2007 2:04 PM
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