Trac Hosting on the Cheap

As happens from time to time, the question of Trac hosting was raised on #trac

Chat Excerpt from 08/11/2009
[07:46:38]<hendrixski>anybody recommend any trac hosting?
[07:48:20]<hendrixski>we're currently hosting our own, and while it's not hard ... it's time consuming
[07:48:33]<jhammel>hendrixski: what is the time consuming part?
[07:49:01]<hendrixski>we installed some plugin, which caused something to work not as we wanted, and undoing it is taking more than an hour or so
[07:49:16]<hendrixski>and... honestly, an hour of developer time a month... and it's worth having someone else host it
[07:49:26]<jhammel>hendrixski: i'm not sure if any hosting company provides that level of support
[07:51:19]<fission6>how do i execute wiki-macros as another user besides apache, can i specify
[07:51:32]<jhammel>hendrixski: actually, its a business i'd like to get into, but am not prepared to quite yet
[07:53:00]<hendrixski>jhammel: I'd pay for it
[07:53:20]<hendrixski>I love trac, I just don't like having to configure the email, plugins, etc. etc.
[07:53:48]<jhammel>hendrixski: i wish i could take you up on that offer; too disorganized right now :(
[07:54:04]<jhammel>hendrixski: maybe in a month, if you still need it...still getting my own hosting story straightened out
[07:56:31]<achilles>I am looking for someone who would like to HOST and CONFIGURE TRAC

There are many options for  Trac Hosting. The issue is really figuring out which ones are good. I tried out  Repository Hosting today and I was impressed. Some of the features that impressed me are:

  • Very nice theme work
  • Nice and snappy response
  • Running an acceptably recent version of  Trac:  0.11.4.
  • Using XMLRPC plugin
  • Various notification avenues (twitter, CIA, etc)
  • Support for both Git and Subversion
  • Nice price @ $6/mo

While I'm not in the market for hosting, I'd recommend  Repository Hosting for anyone that needs cheap Trac hosting. They have done a very nice job. To top things off, their  ToS are reasonable and lack any significant legal mumbo-jumbo and/or selling of any unborn children.

Another option for Trac hosting is  CodeResort.  osimons works on  CodeResort. Because of this I can recommend them as being professional and very capable. However, with  CodeResort's pricing, 125 EUR/mo, they seem to be going after more of the corporate market, rather than the hobbyist market.

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