I might have to downgrade my Github account and move my private repositories over to Assembla.
Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting
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#22Unfuddle has been doing this for a while.
Unfuddle's free accounts only allow 1 project and 2 users. Which is a bummer, because I really liked Unfuddle's interface, but I'm not gonna commit to a monthly service until we actually have revenue. :-(
Unfuddle does a lot of things really well. $9/mo or $24/mo isn't going to break the bank.
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#23Like justinchen said they already offered free SVN and GIT hosting. Then one day they sent out newsletter saying that they're not providing free hosting anymore and that all repositories will be made public. I had to move all my projects to another repository and promised myself never to go back. I don't trust them, sorry!
We did offer free services for about 3 years. Then we had to reduce the free services because of rising hosting costs. No repositories were made public. We maintained private service for everyone for four months, and then restricted usage to read-only, for the people that didn't subscribe. So, no repositories were made public, people got three years plus another four months of free service, and the average charge for people that did subscribe was about $12 per month. If you can't afford that, you don't have a serious projects.
In this round, we have made substantial changes to the business model. Only the repository is free, so we can sell our premium ticketing, collaboration, and management tools. And, we have hosting affiliates that pay us for leads. Plus, the underlying service is profitable and supports the level of admin quality that is required.
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#24All the hippies are using GitHub (me included), but with free private hosting, I'm going to try Assembla out. Good move, Assembla.
I run Assembla, but I will say that Github is a good service, and they do a better job with code sharing and individual repositories. Assembla is more oriented toward managing teams. This is not a move to go against Github. We still offer Github as a repository tool. You can use Assembla ticketing / collaboration / team management tools, and link them to code commits on github.
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#25i just got a free repository at assembla. they try to sell you a server at rackspace. if they can make some money doing that, more power to them. it's not presented in an obtrusive way. maybe that's how they will pay for free
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#26All the hippies are using GitHub (me included), but with free private hosting, I'm going to try Assembla out. Good move, Assembla.
As an Assembla user I fear they are not focusing on their core product. They have some weak areas in Assembla I wish they would focus on instead of reinventing the wheel.
I have the same concern. At Assembla, we feel that we need to work on being best of breed for repositories, and ticketing / issue management. Some of the collaboration features are not at the level of single-purpose providers, but we include them and incrementally enhance them because we think it is important to get project IP in one place. So, that is the focus that we have chosen. I am sure that we can be more focused. Please send us a note if you have specific areas of concern.
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#27I could have sworn their accounts used to be free and then they took away the free accounts in 2008. http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/7019/N... I remember because we were using assembla for some stuff and then moved away when they started charging. I guess that move didn't work too well for them.
This is a good reason not to use assembla ever again. The same thing happened to me.
I "complained" on their blog and got a fair response from their team. Here's what they said: http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/12217/...
To summarize: they didn't have a sustainable business plan and when the costs got too bit they canceled free service. They say now that they're better prepared.
Maybe they're worth giving another try?
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#28is there any good non-commandline way of using git on windows osx and linux ? SmartGit comes to mind, but what are you guys using ?
for mac, i like gitx, but i wish it had built-in diffing.
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#29Sorry, but after what they did when they closed the free private accounts some time ago, I ain't going to touch it again.
Re: Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting
#30All the hippies are using GitHub (me included), but with free private hosting, I'm going to try Assembla out. Good move, Assembla.
I run Assembla, but I will say that Github is a good service, and they do a better job with code sharing and individual repositories. Assembla is more oriented toward managing teams. This is not a move to go against Github. We still offer Github as a repository tool. You can use Assembla ticketing / collaboration / team management tools, and link them to code commits on github.
Thanks for the kind words. GitHub does have an organization/teams feature currently in beta and should be released publicly within a month or two.