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Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects?

Does anyone know of a good project hosting site? Has anyone used cvsdude, svnrepository etc? Do you have any good/bad experiences with any of the sites?

edit : Should have said something about requirements. I need subversion and something with >1gb storage and reasonable bandwidth. Trac is also required.

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Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by jkush on Friday December 07, 2007 @10:23AM (#87013)
Sign up at Assembla.com. It's free up to 500MB. Assembla also gives you Trac and a whole bunch of project management features.

I'm using Assembla for a .NET project with Tortoise as the client GUI.

Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by randomhack on Friday December 07, 2007 @01:01PM (#87062)
looks interesting.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by imperator on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:33PM (#87131)
I use http://www.devjavu.com/ Subversion and Trac hosting.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by hbien on Friday December 07, 2007 @03:31AM (#86937)
The guy behind svnrepository.com is also behind railsplayground.com. The $5/mo plan at railsplayground gives you a web host AND a free svnrepository account (1GB storage, unlimited repositories, unlimited trac instances, https access, use your own domain..). That might be the best value.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by randomhack on Friday December 07, 2007 @03:44AM (#86940)
looks like an excellent plan. any experience in terms of reliability?
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by hbien on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:10AM (#86944)
Rock solid. I've always had access to my svn repository and it's always speedy using it. I've been using them for about 8 months now.

For svnrepository, the control panel doesn't look that great, though =/. But you really won't use it that often, only once in a while to setup new repositories and trac instances (and users).

Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by randomhack on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:34AM (#86945)
Thanks for the info. One note of concern : I dont see their terms of service etc ?
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by rglullis on Friday December 07, 2007 @09:47AM (#86999)
I am using webfaction with excellent results. You can easily setup a SVN repo and a trac instance. I believe their basic plan starts for $7.50/mo. And if you want, you can install other apps.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by zviband on Friday December 07, 2007 @03:05PM (#87104)
I've been using unfuddle. They rock.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by nmeyer on Friday December 07, 2007 @07:06PM (#87176)
I love unfuddle. I find their UI to be so much cleaner than Trac, and the customer service is great. I usually get a response to any problems in under an hour.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by brianr on Friday December 07, 2007 @08:33AM (#86980)
Any reason you're using Subversion instead of a distributed system like mercurial or git?
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by randomhack on Friday December 07, 2007 @09:11AM (#86990)
Primarily because I am used to subversion (the repo is already in subversion on my home machine). Secondly I am not sure whether I will find hosts for mercurial or git?
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by brianr on Friday December 07, 2007 @11:12AM (#87030)
If subversion is already working ok then I guess there's no pressing reason to switch, but if you want to try something new, git (http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html) seems pretty cool so far (been using it for about a week). You can put the repository anywhere you want (e.g. your home directory) so you should be able to run it on any host. The fastest/easiest/recommended way is to just run it locally.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by hhm on Sunday December 09, 2007 @12:03PM (#87479)
Darcs is also a very interesting option. Have you tried it? I've been using it for one week after a few years using SVN and it seems like a very viable option.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by mooneater on Friday December 07, 2007 @07:06PM (#87175)
git-svn makes it easy to migrate from svn to git, or to use git in conjunction with svn. This screencast was a great intro to git and git-svn (not free): http://peepcode.com/products/git
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by bkmrkr on Friday December 07, 2007 @11:04AM (#87026)
most hosts now have svn support, I use dreamhost.com
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by randomhack on Friday December 07, 2007 @12:59PM (#87061)
uhmm .. didnt know that ! thannks !
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by champion on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:02PM (#87119)
my short experience with SVN on dreamhost was that it was very slow and a bit flakey.
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by endlessvoid94 on Friday December 07, 2007 @09:23PM (#87207)
it's slow if you are on a shared hosting package...otherwise it runs very well
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by oxtopus on Friday December 07, 2007 @03:22PM (#87108)
We use cvsdude.com
Re:Ask YC: Version control hosting site for private projects? by uuilly on Sunday December 09, 2007 @04:53AM (#87435)
I use it too. The web UI is kind of brutal but I don't have to go there much. It works, I'm happy with it.