For hosted Subversion, we love Springloops, though we are curious about Beanstalk
Saturday, February 21st, 2009We rely on Subversion to keep track of every change we make to our projects. Rather than host Subversion ourselves, we rely on Springloops.
We love Springloops. They have a great, easy to use interface, and they have a great deploy option that we’ve come to rely upon.
In fact, at this point, there are only two outside services that have proven worthwhile enough that we pay good money to use them each month.
One is Springloops.
The other is Basecamp.
Springloops helps us manage our code (HTML, CSS, images, PDFs, etc). Basecamp helps us manage our projects.
We do have one minor annoyance with Springloops – apparently because it is based in Poland, it doesn’t take credit cards, only PayPal payments. And they have consistently messed up the auto-billing of our PayPal account, so that we had to go in and pay manually, so as not to end up with an unpaid bill.
So, that leaves us somewhat curious about the competition: Beanstalk. Has anyone had much experience with them? If so, what do you think?
By the way, we used Unfuddle for one project. Not our favorite. It is ambitious, and tries to offer a bit of everything – ticket tracking, milestones, hosted Subversion, etc. Like a lot of projects that try to do everything, it comes up a bit short. For Subversion, we prefer the simplicity of Springloops. For project management, we prefer Basecamp.
