Pragmatic Paddy

Subversion is crucial for my development efforts, without I spend a lot of time getting frustrated with things that should be easy.  Subversion is very useful even when I’m the only coder on a project, it is a necessity for collaborative development.   I wanted to get a subversion server that I could access anywhere in the world and that clients could access, they can’t get to my linux box sitting behind my cable modem.

I looked at getting a virtual private server, you get a good amount of space with them, but you have to setup subversion yourself.  Dreamhost now offers subversion hosting too, but I have heard mixed reviews about them.  Version control isn’t something I wanted to skimp on.  I ended up going with CVSdude hosted subversion.

I’m really glad I did, I pay less than a VPS for something that is up right now.  For $30/month I get unlimitted repositories (each client will get their own repository), and 5 Gigs of total space.  I also get web-svn, bugzilla, VC, and Trac project management.  Each repository gets its own trac setup.  All of this is managed with a decent web interface (it’s table based ), and it just works.   I probably saved at least 2 or 3 days of sysadmin work by going with CVS dude.  Comparative advantage is a great thing to remember.
The CVS Dude service has been good.  They have a good pipe, I get 40K up, and 600-900k down, I’m pretty sure my cable modem is the limit, those are about the most I get for uploads and downloads for other activities.  I misnamed my repository initially, thinking I was picking my admin name, instead that was the base name for all my repositories.  A short email to their support fixed that in a couple hours.  I am concerned about looking professional with a repository URL that looks like svn.cvsdude.com  luckily I can get a domain name for my repository and they say it will work.