I'm currently looking for a (cheapish!) hosted continuous integration service for my private projects and they seem a bit thin on the ground. Does anyone have any experience of using one?
Continuous Integration is typically very CPU and disk intensive so it's very different from web hosting and is going to be priced differently. In other words, don't expect the same prices (and hosted CI, and this is especially true for Java projects, is a niche market so there isn't much competition).
- If your project is open source you might get it build on CodeBetter TeamCity server. Viewtier also offers hosted Continuous Integration for open source projects.
- Mike CI or CI Foundry are commercial alternative for hosted CI.
- You could also use an Amazon EC2-based solution (roll your own or use existing AMIs like CI in a box or CI as a Service).
Personally, I would go for an Amazon EC2-based solution (like many enterprises do actually).
As Pascal mentioned, We (Mike CI) offer a hosted continuous integration service. We just added support for GitHub and for more extensive (functional/integration) testing as part of a build process. Our focus at the moment is on Java development teams, but we will be offering Ruby/Rake capabilities very soon.
Our prices start at $10/month and we provide a 14-day no-obligation trial. You only need to provide us with your email address and company/project name to get started.
Consider fazend.com, it's a free hosted continuous integration platform.