8svn infinite subversion

We are in the final stages of rolling out Trac. Contact us to have Trac installed and linked to your subversion repositories.

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software
development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based
software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great
software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as
possible on a team’s established development process and policies.

It provides an interface to  Subversion (or other version control
systems), an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities.

Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages,
creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets,
files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all current and past project events
in order, making the acquisition of an overview of the project and tracking
progress very easy. The roadmap shows the road ahead, listing the upcoming
milestones.

http://trac.edgewall.org/

That’s right, our amazing price for an unlimited subversion account is back! This time around it’s under $10. You get unlimited disk space, unlimited repositories, unlimited users for only $9.99 per month! Sign up now to lock in this amazing price!

We’re running a special for new signups: You get unlimited disk space, unlimited repositories, unlimited users for only $15 per month! Sign up now to lock in this amazing price!

@8svn  -  http://twitter.com/8svn

In case you’re not familiar with twitter here’s an excerpt from twitter.com:

 What is Twitter?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

We hope to see you there!

We have created a short video that shows how to create an 8svn account and begin uploading files securely. It desperately needs narration but you should be able to understand what’s going on. Expect version 2 soon.

On a good day my home modem provides 3Mbit down and 384Kbit up. Each graph represents 2 minutes of traffic between my router and modem. In both cases multiple users were connected to the web, running chat programs, streaming media, etc.

Sample 1: Uploading large file to 8svn and attempting to download a large file from a fast website. Upload bandwidth is maxed out and the download speeds are slow. Latency is very high and makes typing in ssh sessions nearly impossible. Ouch.

Sample 2: QoS is enabled in the router and a large file is being uploaded to 8svn on port 8443. Upload bandwidth is maxed out and full-speed downloads are possible. Web browsing is snappy and ssh sessions are responsive. Excellent!

Original Post: Port 8443 = Simple QoS Management

Many users have commented that their internet connection becomes sluggish during large file transfers. High latency and low throughput is expected, especially when uploading through asymmetrical connections such as those provided by most DSL and cable modems. Lucky for us, there’s an easy solution!

Quality of Service (QoS) capable routers are very common and can solve this problem. We simply need to tell our QoS router that uploading a large file to 8svn is not as urgent as our Skype calls, YouTube videos, or other internet traffic. Just add one rule to your router’s QoS preferences that says traffic on port 8443 is not urgent and tell your subversion client to connect to 8svn servers at port 8443. Done!

Your new repository urls should look like https://svn.8svn.com:8443/USERNAME/svn/REPOSITORY

Port 8443 is only used to make 8svn’s subversion traffic more easily identifiable to your router’s QoS scheduler. Standard SSL port 443 will continue to function as normal. Using the new port is completely optional.

WebSVN is available at https://svn.8svn.com/USERNAME/websvn

WebSVN offers a view onto your subversion repositories that’s been designed to reflect the Subversion methodology. You can view the log of any file or directory and see a list of all the files changed, added or deleted in any given revision. You can also view the differences between 2 versions of a file so as to see exactly what was changed in a particular revision.

WebSVN offers the following features:

• Easy to use interface
• Highly customisable templating system
• Log message searching
• Colourisation of file listings
• Blame support
• Tar ball downloads
• Directory comparisons
• RSS Feed support
• Fast browsing thanks to internal caching feature
• Apache MultiViews support
• Support for bugtraq: properties

http://websvn.tigris.org/

Account finance pages now show your balance as well as BytesTransferred and ByteHours. These figures are updated every few hours.

BytesTransferred are the units we use to measure your account bandwidth usage. This figure represents the total number of bytes transferred by your account.

ByteHours are the units we use to measure your account storage. One ByteHour is consumed when you store one byte for one hour.

25,165,824 ByteHours are consumed when you store 1MB for 1Day.

1MB * 1024 Bytes/KB * 1024 KB/MB * 1day * 24 Hours/Day = 1,048,576 Bytes * 24 Hours = 25,165,824 ByteHours.

25,165,824 ByteHours at our current (December 2007) rate of $0.01 per MB per Month will cost about $0.00033, or about 33/1000 of a penny. Not bad!

8svn is now open to the public!