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http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/Release-2-0-restricting-free-plans-giving-back-with-features-and-pric

I'm very disappointed about this... I use Assembla for my personal projects(commercial) and now I have to move everything to another place!

There are some questions about different free hosting... I extracted some of the sites that offers free hosting for projects:

http://www.svnhostingcomparison.com/ http://www.codespaces.com/

If you know about others like assembla please post it!

Cheers from Argentina!

+3  A: 

There is one trac/svn host very interesting, devjavu.com. They have a free acount plan and unexpensive paid alternatives. I've used devjavu for two projects, and I found it better than assembla.

Victor Rodrigues
What about outages? Last time I checked the forums there were some people complaining about Subversion outages. The last thing I would want on a project is a broken Subversion server…
zoul
Devjavu just closed their free account signups a couple days ago (Nov 2). They say it will be opened again, but there's no clear timeline as to when that will happen.
Dan Walker
+7  A: 

Another similar is http://www.bitbucket.org/, but they only use Mercurial:
What does Bitbucket give you?

* A home for your Mercurial project(s)
* A simple, yet powerful web interface
* Access control, multiple readers and writers
* Push/pull over HTTP(s) and SSH
* Issue tracker
* Social aspect (following users/repos, events, etc.)
* Supports OpenID
* and more...

The free plan includes 150mb

Matías
+1  A: 

From elsewhere on this site I learned of Beanstalk and signed up for a free account with them - so far it works fine.

Mark Allen
+1  A: 

You can try this site: http://www.githost.cn

nowa
+7  A: 

At another question I made a listing of hosting websites. Out of these sites origo allows hosting commercial projects too: http://www.origo.ethz.ch/

Origo is created by the ETHZ, a well-known university in Switzerland. Origo has a clean UI, supports Wiki-sites, Forums, a blog and releases (no mailinglists). The issue-tracker is simple in the usage. As version-control is used Subversion. Origo support software-and non-software-projects and also Closed-Source-Projects.

Mnementh
Dude! this is the right answer!This is definitely better than Bitbucket (if you're looking for free private projects)
sebastian
+2  A: 

I'd host VisualSVN locally, and put in some kind of wiki alongside it. Using these "free" online hosts is the ultimate vendor-lock-in anti-pattern.

endian
+4  A: 

I have to agree with endian, in the end you usually get what you pay for. If you do commercial work don't put it on a free server. Don't pick anything where you can't get your repositories off the site again in case you move them. Some hosters offer downloads of the whole repository. If your are trying to be a professional entity and sell software commercially cough up the 20$ per month (and there might be cheaper ones out there) to get your repository hosted, and most of all ...

Don't whine when your free service goes to a paying model

I use Wush they have a 20$ per quarter plan

Harald Scheirich
+1  A: 

FogBugz is always highly recommended, and free for up to two people. I just started using it (moving from assembla) and I like it so far.

+2  A: 

BitBucket will only host one repository for free.
I found XP-Dev which will host 5 repositories with 300 MB each

sebastian
Don't mind this post... go with http://www.origo.ethz.ch/
sebastian
Bitbucket will host any number of repositories for free, but only one private one on the free plan.
jespern
+9  A: 

I currently use Unfuddle and love it!

Scott Muc
I agree. Unfuddle is even better than Assembla. Supports both subversion and git.
miguelSantirso
+8  A: 

I migrated to Unfuddle. I like it, speed seems to me better than what I had at Assembla. But, Assembla had better options:

  1. Assembla had a web-based interface for exporting/backuping (svnadmin dump) and importing a repository. It helps migrations and it allows me to backup once in a while the repository. With Unfuddle you have to request the staff to do it for you. For large repositories you have to find a way to send them your dump file for importation. Not exactly simple.

  2. Accounts were "global" at Assembla. Meaning that with a single account I could work on many other projects hosted under different accounts. Accounts are "local" at Unfuddle. Each project has its own list of users and credentials.

I looked at OpenSvn but the website and BIG WARNING sign are not inspiring. I tried to open an account but never received the confirmation email, so no luck there.

I think DevjaVu could be a nice alternative, but I could not open an account. It is under invitation only, so no luck there either.

I have a friend of mine which migrated from Assembla to Origo. He likes it. We checked their web interface and they have the web-based svnadmin dump available, but no web-based import. I can't say about the accounts "scope". Still, it is a student initiative, will it last? How safe is the data?

Philibert Perusse
On an other project I am using Origo and it goes quite well. We are multiple developers on the same project. Speed is good. The only downside is the hooks are not installed to allow changes of comments once commits are done. You better get them right the first time.
Philibert Perusse
+1  A: 

A new alternative is http://workspace.activestate.com.

TheFoot
+3  A: 

Check Project Locker. It is free for 5 users and up to 500MB - seems interesting.

rafek
+1  A: 

Assembla is Free again. We don't have to longer worry about cheap alternatives

Salvador Buendia
A: 

assembla is free for 1 user/1project other wise there are charges. Still, for what it offers, assembla is a pretty good deal.

Lachen
+1  A: 

Check out this great Subversion Hosting Comparison site:

http://subversionhosting.dbur.com/

It has (at time of writing) 62 Subversion Hosting products to compare.

Floyd Price
nice site! thanks!
pabloide86
No worries, the site now has 69 products to compare and some screenshots too.
Floyd Price