[H-GEN] Very cheap Subversion hosting?

[gavin duley]

On 23 Feb 2009, at 11:13, Benjamin Fowler wrote:

> However, the low-end offerings cost about $US5 a month, and for my  
> purposes, are massive overkill.  I would be happy to release my code  
> as Open Source when it's ready, but 1) it's not in a releasable  
> state, 2) it's not really interesting to anybody apart from myself,  
> and 3) it's too eclectic to post as a Google Code or Sourceforge  
> project.
>
> Does anybody have any crazy ideas on obtaining ultra-low-end source  
> repository hosting?


The SDF Public Access Unix system provides access to svn, cvs, git and  
rsync. For svn, git and rsync you need to have MetaARPA membership --  
this costs US$36/year, which is a bit under half the sum you quoted  
above. For cvs, I think you just need ARPA membership, which is a one- 
off US$36 donation for lifetime membership[1].  There is no  
requirement to release the software under any particular licence, or  
indeed to release the software at all.

Levels of membership are explained here:
http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?join

There are some tutorials to help you get started with these on SDF:
http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?tutorials/cvs_on_sdf
http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?tutorials/scmgit-intro

I've not used these services on SDF myself, but I do have an account  
on the system which I use for things like mail and web hosting. It's  
very reliable, and has almost no downtime. SDF is run on DEC Alpha  
servers running NetBSD, and these seem to work pretty well :-)

gavin,


[1] This is for the lifetime of SDF, not the user -- but SDF has been  
going since 1987 and is not going to fold overnight.
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Gavin Duley
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