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.
Tags backup, subversion, trac | no comments
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.
Tags hosting, import, subversion, SVN | no comments
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.
Tags deployment, integrations, subversion, SVN | no comments
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.
Tags Git, integrations, subversion, SVN, webhooks | no comments
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.
Tags address, ip, security, subversion, trac | no comments
Posted by C. G. Brown
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:02:00 GMT
We will be performing maintenance on the ProjectLocker servers from Saturday, June 27 at 9 AM EDT (1:00 PM GMT) to 12 PM EDT (4:00 PM GMT). We will be executing some performance enhancing changes to configuration and installing Subversion 1.6.3.
During this time, you may experience brief interruptions of service. Please e-mail support [-at-] projectlocker.com if you have any questions.
Tags maintenance, subversion, upgrade | no comments
Posted by C. G. Brown
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:10:00 GMT
Attention all Lighthouse fans: we at ProjectLocker have released an integration between Subversion and Lighthouse. Much credit goes to James Cox and the Lighthouse gang for writing a sample beacon that we used as the basis for ours,
described here. Like the sample beacon, you can both submit changesets and act on tickets through your commit log messages. Existing customers can check the Support FAQ for details on how to set it up. The integration is also available for all accounts, so if you've been looking for free Subversion hosting with Lighthouse integration, you've found it.
We of course are fans of Trac at ProjectLocker, but recognize that no two teams work exactly the same way, and there are a lot of ways to track issues and manage projects. That's why we will continue to support your software team working in the way that is best for them, and continue to work with great partners like
Lighthouse,
Basecamp,
FogBugz, and others to allow our customers to use our products and theirs together. We're excited about continuing to grow our ecosystem and hope that you find our integration points useful.
Tags hosting, integration, lighthouse, subversion | no comments
Posted by C. G. Brown
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:31:00 GMT
For those of you who use
Rally Software's solutions, we've done a pass over the Subversion integration with Rally to make it easier to set up and add support for multiple Rally workspaces. If your Rally account has access to the API, you can use our integration seamlessly by putting your Rally user name and password into your user profile, and having your account administrator set the appropriate URL for access to the API. Once this is set up, commit messages that reference artifacts are linked to the artifacts and can even act on them in some cases (for example, closing a ticket). If you have any questions, more detailed instructions are available in the support FAQ in ProjectLocker Portal.
We welcome any additional input you have as users as to what integration points you would like to see between ProjectLocker and Rally, or other tools in general. We want to help you write great software the way that works best for your team.
Tags hosting, rally, subversion | no comments
Posted by Damon Young
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:26:00 GMT
If you have a chance to read the testimonials for ProjectLocker on the Case Studies page of our website, you'll see that one of the more ringing endorsements for our services comes from a manager with Salesforce.com's professional services team. It seems that our hosted Subversion services was integral to the success of this team of consultants.
But now that Salesforce has started to reach beyond CRM into the world of application development with Force.com, they've given an even better recommendation for our services on their official blog. See the details of how you can integrate Subversion with your Force.com development environment at http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2008/12/put-your-forcecom-app-under-version-control.html .
Tags control, development, force.com, salesforce, SCM, software, source, subversion, version | no comments
Posted by C. G. Brown
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:01:00 GMT
Due to heavy customer demand, we've worked hard to release our newest feature: Remote Deployment. With Remote Deployment, you can deploy code directly from your SVN repository at ProjectLocker to your servers without writing scripts on your machine. You can configure multiple environments to represent your development, QA, or production deployment needs. We support transport of your data via FTP, SFTP, and SCP, and we even allow you to run SSH commands on your server after the deploy is complete! We even provide a public key that you can install to your deployment user's account to allow secure deployment without passwords. To try it out, just go to your Project page in ProjectLocker Portal and click on Remote Deploy Settings. The tool is in Beta at this time, so if you have any issues, please open a ticket or contact us via e-mail, and we'll be happy to assist.
We hope our customers find this feature useful in managing their development. Being able to deploy to multiple environments on-demand means that you can do release management more easily and on a schedule that suits you, without lots of scripting and additional hardware. If you're not yet a ProjectLocker customer, compare our prices and features to any of our competitors and you'll find we're not only the lowest-priced solution, but also the best value. We're excited to continue to find new ways to bring our customers Software Quality on Demand.
Tags deploy, ftp, remote, scp, sftp, subversion, SVN | no comments
