Can someone recommend a reliable CVS or SVN hosting service?

Question

I want to use CVS or SVN as my source control mechanisms on several side projects I am working on. Instead of hosting the server myself, I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on CVS or SVN hosts. My concerns in order are: reliability, uptime, and price. When responding, please give details on your recommendation. Also, if someone has had a bad experience with a CVS host, please explain that as well so we know who to stay away from.

Answer 1

We've had good luck with http://cvsdude.com/. We've used it for about 6-9 months for svn hosting. Note, they do also provide cvs hosting as well.

Answer 2

This has been discussed at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/99743/what-are-some-decent-isps-that-host-subversion

I have had good luck with http://devguard.com/. Very affordable but I've never had much of an issue. Has 'Trac', 'WebSVN', HTTPS, user management, unlimited projects and users, etc.

Answer 3

Wikipedia has a long list of options. I use Google Code for svn hosting, while Sourceforge is still around for cvs and svn.

Answer 4

I would strongly recommend Assembla for hosting your SVN projects. It provides:

a Wiki

spaces for discussion

ticketing

e-mail alerts

chat

milestones

a bug tracking system

and some more interesting things.

Answer 5

I use webfaction for my hosting, It not only supports Subversion, it also supports allmost every available open source webhosting platform (PHP, Django, Ruby on Rails, Zope, Plone, etc). It has some great plans with your own place on their servers; Just like virtual hosting; only without needing to keep it up-to-date.

Answer 6

http://unfuddle.com/ has a free 200mb SVN, with project mangement and such. Take a look at that.

Answer 7

http://beanstalkapp.com/ for SVN, one developer is free so you can try it.

Answer 8

I found ProjectLocker to be the best value if you need more storage and repositories than are offered with the free accounts. $2.50/month for 1GB of space, backups, trac, unlimited repositories (svn) and projects. I've been using it for 6 months or so and haven't had any problems.

Answer 9

Hosted-projects.com works fine for me for more than a year by now, no issues so far. Control panel is pretty simplistic and geeky though.

Answer 10

Without wanting to start a system war here, but before you decide on a hoster you should decide on a system. And I'd suggest to really evaluate the pros and cons of svn over cvs before committing to a solution.

Answer 11

Code Spaces is a pretty good service. They respond extremely fast to customer queries. They've also fixed bugs and implemented new features pretty fast as well. They have a free account that is perfect for small projects.

http://www.codespaces.com/

Answer 12

I'm using Assembla.com and I would say that so far it looks great for small projects. http://www.assembla.com/

Answer 13

[SVN] If you want to do the hosting yourself on your domain, you can buy hosting at Dream Host. I've been with these guys for the past 2 years and have not had any problems with them. The price is good and the bundle is quite decent.

Answer 14

I personally use http://beanstalkapp.com/. The price is good and no charge for the first project. It also integrates itself into other services such as Lighthouse, FogBugz, Basecamp, Twitter and Campfire to give you all the services you may need.

Answer 15

I second Unfuddle.com as well. I have used them for over a year and have been very pleased. They use SVN.

Answer 16

Have a look at http://www.mxhub.com/svn-subversion-hosting.php Been hosted with them for over a year.. so far so good.

Answer 17

http://www.xp-dev.com is another good one - I've been using that for several months now, and am quite happy with them.

Edit: They are SVN.

Answer 18

http://svnhostingcomparison.com has a list of a bunch of providers. If your code is open source, check out http://code.google.com/hosting!

Answer 19

An extra vote to Asssembla, you can add a lot of instant tools to integrate with your repository with just one click

Answer 20

You can checkout InDefero, which is a clone of GoogleCode with both a hosted offer and an application to download (GPL). You have no lock in as you can import all your data in your own instance. Note that I am a developer of InDefero.