CVS hosting
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So today marks the 3rd day that Source Forge CVS service has been down, and it has completely blown my release plans for the VCF. I had planned the release on Friday, but their servers went down sometime Thurs. So I pushed it back to Monday thinking surely they would have the servers back up by late Fri or Sat. Now it's looking like today is a loss as well meaning I have ot push back the release even further, as a Monday release doesn't look likely either! :mad: So, I'm thinking that once this release is finished, perhaps it is time to look elsewhere for CVS (or possibly SVN) hosting. I'd still keep the project hosted there, it's convenient, but the CVS stuff would be moved off, since they clearly are not reliable (this is not the first outage they have had - this is the third one in the last two months). Anyone have any good suggestions about places that might host this either for free or not? I am already paying for the website hosting, maybe I can investigate whether they also would be willing to allow CVS access. On a side note - would any of you who make use of SF for project hosting pay for it? In other words, I'd gladly be willing to pay SF a yearly fee of around $40 for hosting my project. Surely this would help them afford better equipment, workers, etc? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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So today marks the 3rd day that Source Forge CVS service has been down, and it has completely blown my release plans for the VCF. I had planned the release on Friday, but their servers went down sometime Thurs. So I pushed it back to Monday thinking surely they would have the servers back up by late Fri or Sat. Now it's looking like today is a loss as well meaning I have ot push back the release even further, as a Monday release doesn't look likely either! :mad: So, I'm thinking that once this release is finished, perhaps it is time to look elsewhere for CVS (or possibly SVN) hosting. I'd still keep the project hosted there, it's convenient, but the CVS stuff would be moved off, since they clearly are not reliable (this is not the first outage they have had - this is the third one in the last two months). Anyone have any good suggestions about places that might host this either for free or not? I am already paying for the website hosting, maybe I can investigate whether they also would be willing to allow CVS access. On a side note - would any of you who make use of SF for project hosting pay for it? In other words, I'd gladly be willing to pay SF a yearly fee of around $40 for hosting my project. Surely this would help them afford better equipment, workers, etc? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
Tigris are apparently very good hosts, though I have never used them. And on the side note, I would pay for quality CVS hosting, though I would be willing to pay much more than $40 a year. $40 is just one hour of a persons time per year, not very much to make an impact. - Phil
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So today marks the 3rd day that Source Forge CVS service has been down, and it has completely blown my release plans for the VCF. I had planned the release on Friday, but their servers went down sometime Thurs. So I pushed it back to Monday thinking surely they would have the servers back up by late Fri or Sat. Now it's looking like today is a loss as well meaning I have ot push back the release even further, as a Monday release doesn't look likely either! :mad: So, I'm thinking that once this release is finished, perhaps it is time to look elsewhere for CVS (or possibly SVN) hosting. I'd still keep the project hosted there, it's convenient, but the CVS stuff would be moved off, since they clearly are not reliable (this is not the first outage they have had - this is the third one in the last two months). Anyone have any good suggestions about places that might host this either for free or not? I am already paying for the website hosting, maybe I can investigate whether they also would be willing to allow CVS access. On a side note - would any of you who make use of SF for project hosting pay for it? In other words, I'd gladly be willing to pay SF a yearly fee of around $40 for hosting my project. Surely this would help them afford better equipment, workers, etc? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
You don't need anyone to host a 'real' CVS server (by that I mean pserver in xinetd), you can use CVS over SSH on any hosting account that allows SSH access. Check your current provider, they may already allow it. You can run Subversion in the same way (using svn+ssh:/// urls). BTW I would highly recommend switching to Subversion, it's great.
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You don't need anyone to host a 'real' CVS server (by that I mean pserver in xinetd), you can use CVS over SSH on any hosting account that allows SSH access. Check your current provider, they may already allow it. You can run Subversion in the same way (using svn+ssh:/// urls). BTW I would highly recommend switching to Subversion, it's great.
Yeah I've been tracking SVN for the last several years, and I've heard only good things. However, we did try on SF, and a number of people noticed that it seemed to perform much slower than CVS. Would this just be a SF issue, or does the SVN server tend to perform slower than CVS? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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Yeah I've been tracking SVN for the last several years, and I've heard only good things. However, we did try on SF, and a number of people noticed that it seemed to perform much slower than CVS. Would this just be a SF issue, or does the SVN server tend to perform slower than CVS? ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
I haven't used the Sourcesforge svn yet, but I don't have any complaints about speed. Maybe when switching from cvs to svn on the same project, and when using lots of big files, makes it more noticeable - but I've never done that (only started using svn for new projects). It does make a big difference whether you use file:// or https://, but that's to be expected. At work we have Apache 2 with mod_svn on a PIII 500 mhz, and even on a machine that old it's workable (commit/send speeds of 50 kb/s, according to TortoiseSVN).