Hosted SVN options?

**d000hg** · 29 March 2011, 15:17

Been using Codesion for a while now. The main project I work on uses it, and my plan B is on their free plan. That's limited to 1 user and their cheapest $6.99/mo is 2-users, so I guess you'd be looking at $19.99/mo (link)

I think you get a few freebies like bugzilla/trac thrown in as well but it might vary by plan.

I've been happy with them and their response to any questions, you can backup your work easily and they also claim very decent backups of their own.

**minestrone** · 29 March 2011, 16:37

Could go for that. One of the users is for automated stuff so i will just cut him out, $64 is a fair price for the year.

Just now I back up by placing the repository in my dropbox folder but as I have dropbox on my laptop and as I have the source folder encrypted it means I also have to encrypt the repository. Getting silly.

**VectraMan** · 29 March 2011, 18:19

I have a Carbonite online backup account, and as each commit is a new file in SVN, it works quite well watching the SVN repository and just uploading each change. I was thinking about using some kind of sync tool to duplicate it to a NAS as well, but never got round to that, and I have a regular incremental backup of the drive anyway.

A hosted service sounds like a lot more hassle to me, not less.

**d000hg** · 29 March 2011, 21:01

It depends on your usage I suppose. Unless you have a full server then hosted is very useful when you are not in your office. If you have a proper server, then you are running your own hosted service anyway, just without the multi-$million infrastructure.

**Freamon** · 29 March 2011, 21:14

This is the one all the cool kids are using:

Subversion Hosting & More - JIRA Studio

Gives you quite a bit more than just a SVN repository too.

**minestrone** · 30 March 2011, 10:24

Codesion are a bit wolly on the type of offsite back up you can do.

On this page it says no for the team service.

On this page it says yes for the team service.

**d000hg** · 30 March 2011, 10:46

Fire off an email, I've generally found them pretty responsive and though their support staff appear to predominantly be offshored, I never found myself trying to communicate with a 'bob'. We use the team service so I can look online if you like.

Atlassian's product is worth a look, though it's a pretty big hammer for the thumb-tack you're trying to nail.... you'd be paying $1000+ per year

edit: I am not sure either after logging into codesion. I've fired off a support request and will let you know.

**minestrone** · 30 March 2011, 10:58

I'll fire them off an email at luch time.

I think they mailed me recently as I own a java.net project, when java.net ditched collabnet a few months ago I think the CEO of that place mailed everyone and offered them free project space with teamforge. I was to busy to do anything but looking at the pricing structure I think it would have been one of the better packages they were offering for nowt

EDIT: why do websites make contact forms 20 * 10 text boxes

**d000hg** · 30 March 2011, 12:51

Originally posted by d000hg

Dear Codesion,

I am unclear if the package we are on allows us to take a backup of our SVN repository? I can see an option to _import_ an external repo but not to export for backup.

Originally posted by Codesion

d000hg,

For downloading backups you have to subscribe to "Advanced Backups" plan from optional extras by going to Billing -> Current Plan -> Change Extras

We also provide free backups if customer cancels the account.

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.

Hosted SVN options?