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Assembla now offers free private Git and SVN Repository Hosting
- elbenshira 16y agoAll the hippies are using GitHub (me included), but with free private hosting, I'm going to try Assembla out. Good move, Assembla.
- pyre 16y agoWhy the hippies? IMO, Github is a really useful tool.
- duck 16y agoThis is the only way they will get users from GitHub.
- rjsteinert 16y agoAs 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.
- andysingleton 16y agoI 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.
- andysingleton 16y agoI 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.
- pjhyett 16y agoThanks for the kind words. GitHub does have an organization/teams feature currently in beta and should be released publicly within a month or two.
- icefox 16y agoInteresting, given that GitHub is several years old and has a huge user base there must be something right for GitHub to have not needed a teams feature up until now. Was this a feature that users were asking for or a feature that when watching users they would very much benefit to have?
- pjhyett 16y agoWe just turned two and folks have been asking for team support since before we launched. We've never been in the habit of building features we merely think people want.
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- dalore 16y agoThe cost of github is so small that it's not really a factor.
- justinchen 16y agoI 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/New-subscription-plans-Clarification-and-even-better-pricing.aspx 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.
- ovidiu 16y agoThis is a good reason not to use assembla ever again. The same thing happened to me.
- lenart 16y agoI "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/April-14-Repo-Blitz-Free-unlimited-SVN-and-GIT-and-much-more.aspx#comment39418 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?
- Loic 16y agoThis is why on Indefero I offer only a limited space free account (still with your own domain). The percentage of people using for free such large offers is too high. This is because you are dealing with people who know how to integrate with different services (googlegroups, wikispace, sourceforge, etc.) and can get a really nice setup for free. From a business point of view, I definitely prefer to have less visibility but a higher percentage of paid customers. This allows me to create a product which is of high quality on the long term because I have money to do so. And in fact, discussing with my customers, they prefer it that way. Note that the free offer of Assembla is not free, you get direct advertising when accessing your space. But if we do small maths and we consider that Assembla has the incredible 5% conversion rate from free to paid. This means that on average they will have for 100 users: 95 x 1GB of "free data" 5 x $49 x 2.5GB of paid data I take the 50% usage as on the long run it what my personal stats gives me. So about 100GB of data for $245 per month. As you need a triple backup to be robust. It means 300GB of data to maintain for $245 per month. It is possible, but the margin will be razor thin if you want to provide quality. It is a bold move, I am eager to see how it develops.
- slig 16y agoFor 6 usd/month, unlimited git and svn, trac and webdav and automatic backups, I'm a happy RepositoryHosting (http://repositoryhosting.com/ http://repositoryhosting.com/) user.
- qeorge 16y agoCame here to say this, we also use repository hosting and love them. Can't beat the price. Have also used Unfuddle when working with other shops. Its nice too, and has some Basecamp-esque features if you want something beyond trac.
- mshafrir 16y agoUnfuddle has been doing this for a while.
- theBobMcCormick 16y agoUnfuddle'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. :-(
- goatforce5 16y agoAnd unfuddle only allocates 200mb, which is easy to hit pretty quick. Looks like assembla is offering 2gb, but none of the ticketing tools or other services... Unfuddle does those things really well on the free account. Aint competition a grand thing? :)
- pchristensen 16y agoUnfuddle does a lot of things really well. $9/mo or $24/mo isn't going to break the bank.
- theBobMcCormick 16y agoThey definitely do, and once I have > 9-24 dollars a month in cash flow I very well will consider paying for their service. :-)
- thehodge 16y agoI'd really love to move to Assembla but the packages are a bit strange, starts 40 users and 1 repo? I carn't see many projects having 40 users and only one project at a time, I did ask if I could sacrifice some users for repo's, we work with smaller teams so 10 repo's and 10 users but they declined. The pay as you go is great until you realise you have to pay for each member of the team and each project, so if I work on two 'spaces' I'm classed as two separate users... it soon gets expensive
- lenart 16y agoLike 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!
- andysingleton 16y agoWe 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.
- HowardRoark 16y agoGoodbye to Github. Goodbye to the private Git repo on my VPS!
- sandGorgon 16y agois there any good non-commandline way of using git on windows osx and linux ? SmartGit comes to mind, but what are you guys using ?
- stuntmouse 16y agofor mac, i like gitx, but i wish it had built-in diffing.
- zackattack 16y agohttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/455698/best-visual-client-for-git-on-mac-os-x http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455698/best-visual-client...
- tuxychandru 16y agoThe only case I generally need a GUI tool is for diff and merge. Meld handles it very well for me on Linux and git supports it by default.
- emehrkay 16y agoAssembla is great. The only reason that I stopped using them is because they stopped offering free services. Glad to see that it is back
- mrinterweb 16y agoI might have to downgrade my Github account and move my private repositories over to Assembla.
- tangodelta 16y agoi 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
- Dauntless 16y agoSorry, but after what they did when they closed the free private accounts some time ago, I ain't going to touch it again.
- zavulon 16y agoThis is great. So far I have resisted moving all of our repositories from self-hosted SVN to Github only because it's not free, and I don't see enough benefit to pay for it. However, we could definitely use Assembla
- 10ren 16y agoAs a business hacker, this reminds me that when your costs are cheap enough, a free version that your customers can use properly is the best possible advertising. Like the shareware version of Doom. As a code hacker, I've just setup a git repository with them. They have superb help - cut-and-paste to set up your ssh key, start a git repository and push it to them. Great for learning git.
- oldgregg 16y agoI just signed up to try it. Comprehensive but simple UI. EXCEPT, in free mode it LITERS the interface trying to get you to upgrade. I don't use much of the social features of github for private projects so it still might work and I'll just never log into the website... really annoying ads though.
- andresmh 16y agoI have a couple of open projects on Assembla. I've been very happy with their service and up time. I find Git to be an overkill for the kind of things I need, so SVN is just what I need.
- sh1mmer 16y agoThis is fairly worrying: "When you go to create a space, if you do not have your own plan, you will see a field with the prompt "If another subscriber will pay for this space please, provide his email or login". Enter the information for the subscriber. We will assign the new space to the subscriber, and that person will get a note with the option to decline." So if I don't check my mail someone could bill me for their spaces because I didn't give my disapproval. Um, I'm pretty sure I have to explicitly agree to pay for a service, not disagree to not pay for it.