Posted by Runako Godfrey
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:18:00 GMT
Here's a quick bit of news for the many ProjectLocker users who work with Microsoft's Visual Studio as their primary development environment. A helpful ProjectLocker user recently gave us a pointer to the relatively new
TortoiseSVN Addin for Visual Studio, which brings many Subversion functions right into your IDE (see the screenshots on the site). If you use Visual Studio for Subversion access, this may simplify your workflow somewhat. As you try it out, please keep in mind that it's in beta so it may not be appropriate for all settings.
The add-in is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Posted by C. G. Brown
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:29:00 GMT
Many of our customers have expressed an interest in backing up their projects on a scheduled basis. We've had an archiving feature to back up customer projects for Enterprise customers for some time now, but we have now released scheduled backups to all of our customers. To access scheduled backups, just go to the Manage Subscriptions link in ProjectLocker Portal, on the left navigation bar under "Backup Links", choose the day of the week or day of the month you'd like and your projects, and confirm.
Monthly backups are just
$5/month for unlimited projects. Weekly backups are
$15/month for unlimited projects. All backups are kept at least 30 days, so you can download your backups to an off-site location of your choosing for additional peace of mind. If you just need an occasional backup, you can still use the Request Backups link to get your backup for a single project for just $2.50. However, if you find yourself requesting backups regularly, you can save money and time by scheduling a subscription. There's no contract, even if you're an annual or biannual subscriber, and you can cancel at any time.
We absolutely have
not changed our policy regarding backups for disaster recovery. We continue to regularly back up all customer data internally to an encrypted, off-site location so that we can get you up and running in the event of a disaster on our side. Downloadable backups are just an additional convenience for customers who prefer to maintain their own copies of project data for historical/archiving reasons, or just as an additional measure of protection. In any case, you can continue to rely on ProjectLocker for the enterprise-grade support and infrastructure you expect at a great price.
As always, open a ticket in ProjectLocker Portal if you have any questions or issues with this or any other feature.
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Posted by C. G. Brown
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:54:00 GMT
This weekend, ProjectLocker will be performing additional upgrades to our servers to expand capacity and improve performance. Maintenance will begin Saturday morning at 12 AM EST (Saturday 5 AM GMT) and continue through Sunday at 12 PM EST (5 PM GMT). During this time, users of the following servers will be affected:
- free1
- seed1
- angel1
- venture1
- equity1
Users on other servers and Enterprise users will not be affected.
If you are on an affected server, you may experience intermittent interruptions of service during the maintenance window. We will do our best to keep the interruptions to a minimum. As always, you can contact ProjectLocker Support if you have any questions.
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Posted by Runako Godfrey
Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:05:00 GMT
Per the previous post, this weekend's maintenance was scheduled to be completed by 2pm EST. However, some activities are taking longer than we had estimated, and so we'll need to extend the window to 8 PM EST (1 AM GMT). We apologize for the inconvenience, and we'll try to get everything up smoothly again before 8 PM.
Thanks for your patience.
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Posted by C. G. Brown
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:34:00 GMT
This weekend, ProjectLocker will be performing a number of upgrades to our servers to expand capacity and improve performance. Maintenance will begin Friday at 8 PM EST (Saturday 1 AM GMT) and continue through Sunday at 2 PM EST (7 PM GMT). During this time, users of the following servers will be affected:
- free1
- seed1
- angel1
- venture1
- equity1
Users on other servers and Enterprise users will not be affected.
If you are on an affected server, you may experience intermittent interruptions of service during the maintenance window. We will do our best to keep the interruptions to a minimum. It will also be safe for you to continue to use Subversion, Git, and Trac even if you are on an affected server. As always, you can contact ProjectLocker Support if you have any questions.
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Posted by Runako Godfrey
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:20:00 GMT
ProjectLocker Subversion hosting recently got a new feature that makes it even easier to import your Subversion repositories.
We've long offered automated imports of Subversion dumps via FTP, SFTP, or HTTP. However, some users have indicated that they don't have the access on their existing Subversion server necessary to secure a complete dump of their existing repositories. As a result, we've built an importer that can help in some of those cases. Simply provide the URL and authentication credentials of your existing repository, and our importer will directly import your repository into ProjectLocker. All with no command-line expertise required. You don't even need a separate server to host the dump file! What could be easier?
Direct Subversion Imports are available now via ProjectLocker Portal.
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Posted by Runako Godfrey
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:11:00 GMT
One of the most frequently-requested features at ProjectLocker is the ability to automatically deploy code from your repository to another server. While we've had manual deployments for a while, this wasn't scratching the deployment itch for all of our users. So today we're announcing the availability of automatic deployments for Subversion.
Automatic deployments allow you to tell ProjectLocker to automatically kick off a deployment of your choosing on each commit to your repository. Simply configure your Remote Deployment settings for your project and indicate that you'd like per-commit deployments for a given deployment environment, and you're ready to go. And since you can create as many deployment environments as you like, you can still choose to configure some of those for manual deployment. So you could configure your project to deploy to your staging server on every commit, but wait for manual intervention before deploying to your production server.
Automatic deployments are available immediately to all ProjectLocker Venture and Equity accounts.
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Posted by Runako Godfrey
Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:00:00 GMT
ProjectLocker recently introduced
WebHooks for our Git hosting and Subversion hosting services, which allow you to configure ProjectLocker to notify one of your servers anytime a push (Git) or commit (Subversion) happens. The notification isn't just a 'ping', but provides all the relevant information about the event -- files changed, author, timestamp, etc. (The full JSON format is described in detail in the ProjectLocker FAQ.) That means you can use WebHooks for whatever you want -- integrating with your continuous integration server, sending out custom notifications, or anything else that could benefit from real-time updates from your repository.
WebHooks are available immediately for all paid ProjectLocker accounts.
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Posted by C. G. Brown
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:11:00 GMT
We will be performing maintenance and upgrades on the ProjectLocker servers on Saturday, 8:00 PM EDT to Sunday, 2:00 PM EST ( Sunday, 1:00 AM GMT to 7 PM GMT). During this time, you may experience brief interruptions of service to all ProjectLocker services. We will endeavor to keep outage time to a minimum.
Please contact us at support <[-at-]> projectlocker [dot] com if you have any questions.
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Posted by C. G. Brown
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:46:00 GMT
A number of our customers have requested the ability to restrict access to services by IP address or domain, so that employees can only access Subversion or Trac from specific computers or locations. We now provide restriction by IP address or IP range. Access restriction is included at no additional cost for Venture, Equity, and Enterprise accounts. We will soon be providing it for Seed and Angel accounts for an additional charge.
We support four types of addresses:
- Domains - e.g. "somedomain.com" or "my.domain.com"
- IP Addresses or portions - e.g. "1.2.3.4" for a specific IP or "1.2" for any address beginning with "1.2."
- IP Address ranges with Netmasks - e.g. "10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0"
- IP Address ranges with CIDR Netmasks - e.g. "10.1.0.0/16
To configure your account, just go to the Account Information link and check the "Restrict Access by IP" checkbox, then save your changes. Then, for the project you wish to restrict access to, click the "Restrict Project Access by IP" link and follow the instructions.
Once IP restriction is set up, users will still be able to access ProjectLocker Portal from anywhere with their authentication credentials, but will not be able to use Subversion or Trac unless they are coming from an authorized location.
With IP restrictions, you can rest easy, knowing you have an added measure of security and Enterprise-grade protection, all at the lowest prices in the industry.
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