Hosted SVN options?

[minestrone]

I found this page listing additional extras: Codesion Subversion Hosting | Optional Extras

It looks like you'd end up paying $15/month (ish) in total with this, bizarrely you pay more fro the backup than a 2-user repo.
So it depends if you need the backups as you don't trust them to preserve it, or you simply want to make sure you can get them if you need... looks like you could pay the extra $10 for a month you want to do a backup or something.

Cheers!

I suppose it is a mental thing having the repository in my hands for years then shipping it out without the ability to ship it back in without paying through the nose. A feeling of being held to ransom and not in control if you know what I mean.

JUst have to work out what is a 'user' as there are 4 legacy users in the repository which will no longer be used, are they costed as users or are can I just keep their version history and have the current 2 live ones with checkin rights.

[d000hg]

I can't be sure but I think they regard users as active users only. On many systems like this you can have more users than the limit but only a certain number may be active.

They have a 30 day free trial so it might be easier/worth trying out to see.

[administrator]

Why the need for a hosted solution? For the costs of the solutions you can get a VPS server that you have full control over. Stick Ubuntu on there, install subversion, add the svn users as linux users then you have full control of the machine let alone the repository. You can then automate scripts to back up and push to other locations or whatever.

[minestrone]

For 40 pound a year it takes a bit of back breaking out of it. Suppose it is like why keep a wine cellar when you have a 24/7 oddbins across the road.

Also there is the 'hit by a bus' thing, the plan B code base is looking like a winner (stop laughing at the back) and I can leave hosting co/username/password in an envelope just in case.

[d000hg]

Why the need for a hosted solution? For the costs of the solutions you can get a VPS server that you have full control over.

1. Where do you get a VPS for £10/month?
2. Administering a server requires knowledge for security, etc
3. Costs time to set the thing up, especially if it's not your forte
4. Why reinvent the wheel?

[administrator]

1. Where do you get a VPS for £10/month?
2. Administering a server requires knowledge for security, etc
3. Costs time to set the thing up, especially if it's not your forte
4. Why reinvent the wheel?

1 - Xen virtual servers - Fast, UK-based Xen virtual servers by CheapVPS - £100 for 12 months
UK Xen Virtual Private Servers (VPS) - One of the cheapest UK providers! - £5 per month

2 - apt-get safe-upgrade

3 - apt-get install subversion

4 - why pay more for something relatively simple that you have no root access to?

Linux is pretty secure out of the box. Plain install is very secure - it is really when you start adding software and not keeping it patched that you tend to open yourself to security flaws.

Appreciate managing a server like this is not everyone's cup of tea. With the amount of traffic being suggested for a couple of users I would be more likely to get a £100 old box from somewhere, software RAID it and run it locally, which is what I do here. I have several developers who use the svn repositories on a box sat in the office here.

Totally understand that time and effort to not have the worries of it being hosted locally or on a VPS is worth a measly £10 extra per month but I am a bit of a control freak and having the files on someone else's machine would cause me more stress than self-hosting!

[administrator]

For 40 pound a year it takes a bit of back breaking out of it. Suppose it is like why keep a wine cellar when you have a 24/7 oddbins across the road.

Also there is the 'hit by a bus' thing, the plan B code base is looking like a winner (stop laughing at the back) and I can leave hosting co/username/password in an envelope just in case.

If you can get it hosted for £40 a year then def not worth self hosting. And to be honest, if there was a really reliable solution that was £200 a year and it meant not having to run your own machine and would mean the thing stayed up if something were to happen to you then it is worth it as insurance.

Glad to hear plan B going well!

[d000hg]

Thanks admin, I didn't know such cheap hosting was around. Useful to know for the future.

I don't think I'd agree security isn't a big concern though; exploits in commonly used web-apps are being patched all the time which means there were holes to fix. If the data you have is valuable, building your own backup infrastructure would make me uneasy.

The good thing about hosted services is loads of them have free options for 1/2-user setups which is ideal for our various plan Bs. SVN, FogBugz, BaseCamp, Google Apps to name but a handful... as a 1-man company you can use serious top-notch products for nowt in most cases.

[minestrone]

I'm going in. Hope to get the repository up and live this morning although it might be a mice and men situation.

Ironically I used the oddbins analogy, one of my concerns was having the hosting company disappear over night so I will be taking on the backup option which will cost me 65 quid over the year, back up to disk every week or so.

[minestrone]

Painless so far, uploading repository.

Made an arse of choosing my username as I had been working on <firstname>.<lastname> in the repository and set my user name to <firstname><lastname> which I cannot edit so it looks like I will not keep continuity for the user.