Hi everyone,
i'm looking currently for some options to host our hydrogen forum. At the moment we're using the webserver of a developer, but i think this is not the perfect solution since it makes it hard to "share" the adminstration. Are there any (trustworthy and stable) services out there which provide free webspace (with php, mysql, sth like that..) for open source project? At the moment i know only of sourceforge and their webspace, which was very slow when last evaluated it (this was like 4 years ago.. things might have changed in the meantime, i'll try it). They also provided a dedicated "hosted apps" section for things like phpbb, but that went down this summer :-/
Web/Forum Hosting for Open Source Projects?
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Re: Web/Forum Hosting for Open Source Projects?
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We use the Sourceforge web-space solution to host our project-page and the forum. For sure it isn't the fasted server, but it works well enough for us. Since we use the new Allura platform on Sourceforge, there is indeed a improvement to "4 years ago".
Allura works pretty stable in the meantime, so I could recommend it.
We use the Sourceforge web-space solution to host our project-page and the forum. For sure it isn't the fasted server, but it works well enough for us. Since we use the new Allura platform on Sourceforge, there is indeed a improvement to "4 years ago".
Allura works pretty stable in the meantime, so I could recommend it.
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Re: Web/Forum Hosting for Open Source Projects?
Not sure if it has forums, but Assembla looks promising. It's more of a full-featured project hosting service than, say, Github.
I suppose you could get a .wordpress.com site and add BuddyPress forum plugin(s).
I suppose you could get a .wordpress.com site and add BuddyPress forum plugin(s).
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Re: Web/Forum Hosting for Open Source Projects?
Just that they are focused on commercial projects. For free you gettnovelli wrote:Assembla looks promising
Unlimited Private SVN, Git & P4
Unlimited Users
Collaborative Code Review
1GB Storage
See:
https://www.assembla.com/content/plans2.php
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Thanks! I installed phpbb3 there and it works well for the moment. I think i will give it a try and import all users and posts there to see how responsive it will be..tramp wrote:Hi
We use the Sourceforge web-space solution to host our project-page and the forum. For sure it isn't the fasted server, but it works well enough for us. Since we use the new Allura platform on Sourceforge, there is indeed a improvement to "4 years ago".
Allura works pretty stable in the meantime, so I could recommend it.
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Re: Web/Forum Hosting for Open Source Projects?
We were using Assembla (with SVN) a as a Development Platform before we moved to github. The platform was stable, but the services (like trac) were outdated at that time and had often problems. And they didn't offer web hosting.tnovelli wrote:Not sure if it has forums, but Assembla looks promising. It's more of a full-featured project hosting service than, say, Github.
I suppose you could get a .wordpress.com site and add BuddyPress forum plugin(s).
Re: Web/Forum Hosting for Open Source Projects?
Have you considered renting a cheap VPN? there are some pretty good ones for just 2 euro / month.
Btw, how much ram/ storage do you need? you could try https://www.heroku.com/ they have a free option, and you can upload via git.
Btw, how much ram/ storage do you need? you could try https://www.heroku.com/ they have a free option, and you can upload via git.
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Re: Web/Forum Hosting for Open Source Projects?
OpenVPN is open-source and free.hunyeti wrote:Have you considered renting a cheap VPN? there are some pretty good ones for just 2 euro / month.
Btw, how much ram/ storage do you need? you could try https://www.heroku.com/ they have a free option, and you can upload via git.