Ask HN: good place to store code online?

I'd recommend a cheap VPS, which you can then use for any number of things, including running svn, git, whatever.

You get root access, so you can do whatever you want with it. They're great for prototyping web apps.

I like Slicehost (as low as $20/month) http://www.slicehost.com/

Another vote for github.com if you want a proper code repository. It's well designed and easy to use. If you just want to archive/backup your code, you could also take a look at jungledisk, which provides you a layer on top of Amazon S3, and depending on how much you have to store, might be economical for you.

S3. I have a script that takes one argument, a directory name.

It encrypts the directory name and adds a timestamp, to make a filename that reveals nothing about the contents of the file except for the time it was created. It stores the original directory name along with the encrypted directory name in a local log file, so I can tell what's what later.

Then it zips the directory and its contents into a file, names it with the encrypted filename, and does a GPG encryption of the file.

Then it uploads it to Amazon S3 and cleans up after itself.

All of this is completely automated once I type in the command. I do it for my project directory, which contains all my projects for the calendar year, periodically. After the year closes out, I start a new year and the old files (from previous years) stay safe and unchanged on S3.

Over the course of a year, if a few backups for the same year pile up, I usually delete the old ones. I haven't automated that part.

This scheme is OK for backing up a few important directories, if they aren't large, like for source code, just what you asked about -- a few hundred megabytes will cost just pennies a month on Amazon.

It's not a SVN or GIT solution, but it gives you total privacy, rather than relying on a third party to do the encryption for you.

+1 for NO to Dreamhost. Hands down the worst web host out there. Go for a cheap VPS like Slicehost and roll your own. You have control over everything, and they have rock solid uptime.

I've been looking at duplicity - do you do full system backups?