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Does anyone know of a good project hosting site? Has anyone used cvsdude, svnrepository etc? Do you have any good/bad experiences with any of the sites?

edit : Should have said something about requirements. I need subversion and something with >1gb storage and reasonable bandwidth. Trac is also required.

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Sign up at Assembla.com. It's free up to 500MB. Assembla also gives you Trac and a whole bunch of project management features.

I'm using Assembla for a .NET project with Tortoise as the client GUI.

looks interesting.

I use http://www.devjavu.com/ Subversion and Trac hosting.

The guy behind svnrepository.com is also behind railsplayground.com. The $5/mo plan at railsplayground gives you a web host AND a free svnrepository account (1GB storage, unlimited repositories, unlimited trac instances, https access, use your own domain..). That might be the best value.

looks like an excellent plan. any experience in terms of reliability?

Rock solid. I've always had access to my svn repository and it's always speedy using it. I've been using them for about 8 months now.

For svnrepository, the control panel doesn't look that great, though =/. But you really won't use it that often, only once in a while to setup new repositories and trac instances (and users).

Thanks for the info. One note of concern : I dont see their terms of service etc ?

I am using webfaction with excellent results. You can easily setup a SVN repo and a trac instance. I believe their basic plan starts for $7.50/mo. And if you want, you can install other apps.

I've been using unfuddle. They rock.

I love unfuddle. I find their UI to be so much cleaner than Trac, and the customer service is great. I usually get a response to any problems in under an hour.

Any reason you're using Subversion instead of a distributed system like mercurial or git?

Primarily because I am used to subversion (the repo is already in subversion on my home machine). Secondly I am not sure whether I will find hosts for mercurial or git?

If subversion is already working ok then I guess there's no pressing reason to switch, but if you want to try something new, git (http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html) seems pretty cool so far (been using it for about a week). You can put the repository anywhere you want (e.g. your home directory) so you should be able to run it on any host. The fastest/easiest/recommended way is to just run it locally.

git-svn makes it easy to migrate from svn to git, or to use git in conjunction with svn. This screencast was a great intro to git and git-svn (not free): http://peepcode.com/products/git

Darcs is also a very interesting option. Have you tried it? I've been using it for one week after a few years using SVN and it seems like a very viable option.

most hosts now have svn support, I use dreamhost.com

uhmm .. didnt know that ! thannks !

my short experience with SVN on dreamhost was that it was very slow and a bit flakey.

it's slow if you are on a shared hosting package...otherwise it runs very well

We use cvsdude.com

I use it too. The web UI is kind of brutal but I don't have to go there much. It works, I'm happy with it.

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