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I’m working on a few closed-source projects. (Small ones.) I don’t want to share the code of these projects. But I do want to have an easy-to-install version control system that’s easily installed on my web host.
I don’t have administration rights on this web host so I can’t just run a setup.exe on the remote system. Basically, the only way to install something is by just creating a database and copying files to the server and maybe a bit more by using a Plesk control panel.
I can choose between two hosts: one using Linux with MySQL and the other Windows 2008/IIS7 with SQL Server 2005. The Windows host has my preference, since it provides the most disk space.
So, what options do I have? (Doesn’t have to be free, although I do have a limited budget.)
I can have physical access to both hosts to install some additional software but it means traveling about 5.000 KM to the server room. I can also tell someone at the location of the server to install it for me, but that’s quite expensive. I could just find another company to host this for me but I like my current servers/hosts. So that’s why I’m looking for a solution that I can simply upload to the server.
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What is preventing you from using hosted services like:
They offer a range of accounts including those that are free.
I would highly recommend both Assembla and Unfuddle. They offer different types of version control (SVN, GIT, etc.), as well as ticket management, messaging between teams, wikis, and many many other tools that I haven’t gotten into yet.
I have been using Assembla and have found it to be very intuitive and offer great features, such as automatic integration between the ticketing system and the version control system. I use the free version and just hope that no one browses/steals my code until that particular project gets to the point where I should consider paying their small fee to guard it 🙂
Do comment on what you choose to do!
I run Subversion on Dreamhost for less than $10/month. Most of my projects are pretty small so far–I know they don’t always appreciate large amounts data as non-web-accessible storage. It is first a web host, not a file host. However, its pretty easy to set up SVN repositories in their admin interface and then you have an easy svn+ssh connection.
Of course, since it is a web host it’s easy to install Trac (they even have a 1-click install for it) or some other piece of software as well.