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Hello!

I have several personal/pet (.NET) programming projects in mind, and I’d like to use the same methodologies that I use at work (i.e., using source control). As these projects are not work-related, I can’t use the tools available at my company, so I’m looking for some affordable tools to work with on my own. Ideally I’d like to fine a single hosting provider that would fit my needs.

Here are the things I’m currently looking for:

  1. Source control. Git seems to be popular with .NET folks, so I’m willing to try that. As these are personal projects, I don’t want to make them open source (yet). I know there are several providers that provide private repositories for a small fee (namely GitHub); however, I’d like to find a server that meets the other needs as well so that I don’t have to pay lots of places.
  2. Blog hosting. At some point I’d like to start a blog. Wordpress seems to be popular and some hosting services may even offer this pre-installed.
  3. WCF capability. There are some projects I have in mind that would benefit from client-server communication. WCF is probably the framework I’ll use, so I need a server that would allow me to set up and consume some services.

My guess is that I need some kind of Windows hosting, especially given the WCF needs. I know that one can run Wordpress via PHP running on a Windows server, so that’s not a big issue either. Are there any hosting sites that also offer private Git repos?

If you think I’m going about this the wrong way or have any other guidance, I’m certainly willing to listen.

Thanks!

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It's a good idea to have your source control and production server separate. Try to use http://github.com for git source control. Free for public repositories and a small fee for private. Great service too.

Zepplock
Thanks! I don't really have a production server to speak of. I'd just rather stay in the habit of using source control rather than hoping that I remembered to make a copy of my code before mucking with it.GitHub does seem to be leading the pack at the moment as far as source control providers.
geoffmazeroff