CVSDude, outsourcing your code repository

This week I wanted to give an overview about one of the most popular and on my opinion one of the best code repository hosting services CVSDude. CVSDude is an old player in hosted repositories game – it was founded back in 2002. It has more than 60,000 users in more than 100 countries worldwide, making it more than a reliable service provider.

Probably, the first question you would have…why the hell I would need move my repository to external service provider? I see following reasons: you want to save on infra costs, you have distributed team , you don’t know how  to administer the repo or you are just lazy.

Before you move your repo, you have to think about security. If you are paranoid about security, probably hosting the code repository is not for you. Personally, I think hosting the repo makes sense if:

• you understand that professional admins at service provider has better chance to stand against attacks compared to you.
• you are running an open source project
• you are running a small company or project that is more concerned about costs than about hypothetical risks of loosing your data

What else is cool about CVSDude is their pricing. You can start using it at $7 a month. If you do repository installation yoursleft,  I don’t think you can beat this price. Of course, unless you don’t value your time at all.

Last year CVSDude has launched new version of their platform. With this new version you can also host task and bug tracking systems at their servers. TRAC and Bugzilla are supported.  It makes CVSDude truly a good place for startups and small projects willing to start coding at day one.

What I miss at CVSDude is probably some important pieces of our development environment like: continuous integration tool like CruiseControl and of course integration with Programeter developed by my company.

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