Comments on: Source Control for Micro-ISVs

By: Ethan Giffin

Ethan Giffin — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:45:38 +0000

Great posting. I too was in a similar boat. Small 4 person startup. I also needed access via the Internet to a freelancer across the country. So SS was out. I was used to using Vault at my last job. It was just an extra expense, plus hosting and backups that we weren’t ready to take on. This really helped to seal the deal for me. Although Subversion is a little bit different process than Vault, I am sure we will figure it out along the way.

By: Tim Cull

Tim Cull — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:23:49 +0000

I’ve used SVN at DreamHost, too, for about a year with no complaints. I just couldn’t believe my luck after stumbling on it on their wiki. I just hope they don’t do the same research you and I did and realize how much it’s worth.

By: Michael C. Neel

Michael C. Neel — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:57:40 +0000

This is awesome – I’m in the same boat. It would be nice if there was a Team Server host out there, but I don’t think the price points would work for that =p If you use SVN I can highly recommend VisualSVN (http://visualsvn.com/) – for a few bucks this is a rocking little VS2005 plugin.

By: Rich Zygler

Rich Zygler — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:37:38 +0000

To protect against the host going down, you can always do a “svnadmin dump” as part of your back up strategy to dump a copy of the repo, keep that off site, then use “svnadmin load” to load that dumped copy into a new repo

By: Karthik

Karthik — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:30:33 +0000

Rob, Be careful with Dreamhost. They seem like a dream at first but they can quickly turn into a nightmare. I had some major performance problems on my sites so I’ve left my dreamhost account for subversion/static html content only. I had issues like downtime, slow perf during peak hours, and random database connection errors quite often. I would suggest at least keeping the latest copy of your code somewhere in archive that you control *just in case* Dreamhost’s subversion server takes a dive.

By: David

David — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:44:18 +0000

I also use SubVersion at DreamHost. Be sure to add WebSVN and syntax highlighting. http://wiki.dreamhost.com/WebSVN

By: Ivan Zhakov

Ivan Zhakov — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:02:11 +0000

Take a look to VisualSVN (http://www.visualsvn.com/). It’s based on Subversion. Setup takes 10 minutes and it price is only $49.