Comments on: XP-Dev: Assembla’s Alternative (Free Subversion Hosting)

By: Wenbert

Wenbert — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:40:37 +0000

C.G. Brown, thanks for the comment! I have already signed up and will be giving this a test run some time. It is so good to have Trac! Last I checked, XP-Dev does not have Trac…

By: C. G. Brown

C. G. Brown — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:34:43 +0000

My company, ProjectLocker, also offers free, private Subversion hosting, Git hosting, and Trac hosting. We've been in business since 2003 and also offer paid plans for people who need lots of users or space. Anyone looking for free hosting is welcome to try us and compare us to the competition. We'd love the chance to earn your business.

By: Wenbert

Wenbert — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:13:52 +0000

yup assembla has git. for github, only open-source apps are free. you need to pay for the commercial hosting :(

By: workdraft

workdraft — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:16:04 +0000

assembla do have Trac/Git also. perhaps git-hub would be an option. but i’m not sure if they have private spaces/repos.

By: Wenbert

Wenbert — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:34:18 +0000

@Dr. Mike Wendell, the ticket tracking for XP-Dev is not as sophisticated as Assembla or other stand-alone tracking systems like Trac, Redmine or Mantis. But their subversion hosting works really great ;)

By: Dr. Mike Wendell

Dr. Mike Wendell — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:27:08 +0000

That’s one of the sites that I looked at as well. I was really just using such a site for ticket tracking. I didn’t use much space as I wasn’t throwing around files.

Thanks for the link.

By: Wenbert

Wenbert — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:39:22 +0000

ryan, you are right. assembla has tons of features – the project management stuff is really advanced. the owner of XP-Dev admitted that they still lack some features and said they he is working hard to release new ones within this month.

Let’s just wait and see what kind of business model XPDev will have. I’m hoping that it will be able to cater it’s free services in the long run.

By that time, I will probably have my own Redmine + Git/SVN running on my server ;-)

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:06:21 +0000

XP Dev wont be able to offer such a service for free for much longer. Assembla was in the same boat, offering free subversion hosting but they simply hit a level of users that made it not possible for the company to take the hit on the free services. Thats why the bumped it up to the cheap monthly cost. Also no one can compare to the flexibility and features assembla has to offer in my opinion.