Local PC Hosted or Remote SVN

Question

Hi Guys,

Currently I and two two friends are working on a small project. We are currently hosting the SVN ourselves.

My question specifically relates to whether we should

1) Move to a private hosted solution - unfuddle or github 2) Continue hosting locally

I guess our main concerns are

1) Security of connection 2) Privacy 3) Protecting our source

Does anyone have any thoughts as to whether we keep the source our on local PC solution - or move it to a remote solution ? Main concerns about remote are security of source code but happy for someone to tell me otherwise ?

Answer 1

While your concerns are generally valid any time you consider using a hosted solution for confidential data, it's very unlikely that there will be any practical problem if you use one of the reputable third-party hosting companies.

If the solution you have in place is already working well for you (AND if you have a good backup/disaster recovery plan that is reliably followed) why change a working solution, but otherwise I would setup with a professional hosting company and focus on building your project.

Answer 2

In my opinion it doesn't make much sense to run an SVN Server on a local working machine, since you do risk data loss.

I am a big fan of Beanstalk for SVN hosting, but it's pretty pricey. I'm sure there are free solutions out there.

Answer 3

My current setup is based on Git: one PC hosts a bare repository, and each of the PCs are working on local repositories. The sync between the repos is done by simply sharing the bare repository, and in the same way any two local repositories can be synchronized.

See my question about this setup: Easiest or best way to keep in sync a msysgit repository between three internal Windows-based notebooks?