Subversion hosting?

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I'm working on a few little side projects and was wondering if there is a web host that specialises in hosting Subversion?

I just want hastle free source control with the added benefit of having an offsite backup.
 
For a dedicated Subversion hosting provider go and use www.beanstalkapp.com - they do 5 minute backups on the paid plans off site so you know your data is safe. Most hosting providers do not backup users data and will not tell you that they don't backup the data. So double check that the provider you use does backup the data and ensure that you do have copies of your data that you host.
 
If you're interested in South African based SVN hosting then we can provide hosting at Internet Solutions - The Campus for you. I'm assuming that you're using Visual Studio? We recommend using AnkhSVN which integrates into all Visual Studio versions which you can then use to connect to our SVN server.
 
I use www.wush.net which has worked flawlessly. I started using this a few years ago, so there may now be better options.

I have also tried using AnkhSVN as a visual studio plug-in but at the time (also a while ago) it was horribly buggy. It may well have improved, but I found that TortoiseSVN worked a lot better, although it integrates to Windows Explorer and not Visual Studio.
 
If you're interested in South African based SVN hosting then we can provide hosting at Internet Solutions - The Campus for you. I'm assuming that you're using Visual Studio? We recommend using AnkhSVN which integrates into all Visual Studio versions which you can then use to connect to our SVN server.

Any enterprise class solutions?
 
yes

used svn for many years, and we only switched this year to git for all our projects, new and old.
there is absolutely no reason to continue or start using svn :)

Is there a decent migration path from svn to git?
We have a 35GB svn repository...
 
Is there a decent migration path from svn to git?
We have a 35GB svn repository...

Depends if you want to keep the history. Git can import from svn without issue - did a trial run last month when investigating bitbucket (free git hosting).

I was able to import the history logs but since we really don't need to rollback any code, that was good enough for us. We anyway will just keep our SVN repo alive for read only.
 
You could use Google code.

However, my preference is Bitbucket. It has an unlimited number of private repos. With VS 2012+, you get GIT integration and can push your commits to your bitbucket repo.
 
Is there a decent migration path from svn to git?
We have a 35GB svn repository...

if you want to import your history, it might take time.

most of the time people want to import the history, but in reality never use it. that is what we found.

we just kept out svn repo running in readonly mode for a month or two, just in case.


svn works, in most situations. but, if you have ever experienced the old "want to merge but file has been moved" situation, and wanted to kill yourself, git will fill you with joy. it's merge tracking and conflict resolution is amazing :)

you also dont realise how useful things like "stash" are, until you can do them.

give it a try, it takes a little getting used to, having a slightly different workflow (ie a commit is to your local repo, while a push = svn commit), but I am confident that anyone that uses it will make the switch.

if you on windows, github for windows client (actually just the git shell part + console2 + powershell) is a really nice client, especially if you like using "linuxy" stuff), and tortiosegit is nice too, especially if used to tortoisesvn
 
yup, also use bitbucket. far superior cost wise to github for private repos
 
If you have only a few users, you could try Team Foundation Service. It's free for the first 5 users, unlimited projects. Supports TFS and Git repositories, and has the added benefits of project management around the code repo if you want. Integrates well with eclipse apparently (as well as visual studio obviously).

http://tfs.visualstudio.com/

Any enterprise class solutions?

I'd classify this as enterprise class
 
+1 for Bibucket - great for personal projects and we've recently migrated from svn to git on Bitbucket at work as well. SourceTree is a decent client on Mac or Windows 7+
 
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