On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:34:51PM -0800, Ross Berteig wrote:
> I have a request to share a repository with one of my customers,
> largely to provide them access to the ticket system for their
> product development (and future maintenance) efforts. We use
> Earthlink now as a web and email host so an ideal solution would
> seem to be to install fossil there.
> 
> Hosting a fossil repository at Earthlink would have a zero
> marginal cost to our project if it is possible to do at all. An
> alternative would be to poke a pinhole in our firewall and host
> it on a system in our office, but since we expose no public
> services through that firewall now, there is some nervousness
> about that approach.
> 
> Are there any fossil users out there with success stories or
> cautionary tales they'd like to share? Especially with respect to
> Earthlink? Or with self-hosting on relatively low-bandwidth DSL?
> 
> Ross Berteig                               r...@cheshireeng.com
> Cheshire Engineering Corp.           http://www.CheshireEng.com/
> 

If you don't mind hosting your project with a third party, I run a free
hosting website at [0]. Repositories are served by a chrooted apache
server running on openbsd 5.0.

I also do nightly backups to tarsnap [1].

[0] http://chiselapp.com/
[1] http://tarsnap.com/

-- 
James Turner
ja...@calminferno.net
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