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Subversion on my dedicated (managed) box

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:44 pm
by Luke
We have a dedicated box over at (somehost) (and they have been excellent). I have been trying to get them to set up subversion on the box (or allow me to), but they are afraid it will have adverse effects on Plesk. I dont see how it possibly could. I think they think they will need to allow it on a per-domain basis, but I dont think thats necessary. I would like all users on the box to have subversion available in ssh. This way I can export my svn repositories into a local directory any time I need w/out having to do that locally and then upload with ftp.

Does anybody see there being any issues here? Are they being paranoid or am I being ignorant?

Re: Subversion on my dedicated (managed) box

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:56 am
by Luke
Nothing, eh? :(

Re: Subversion on my dedicated (managed) box

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 3:39 pm
by Christopher
I don't see how it would effect Plesk? Have then just never installed it before?

Re: Subversion on my dedicated (managed) box

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:20 pm
by VladSun
If it is a dedicated box, aren't you supposed to install and run whatever you want?

Re: Subversion on my dedicated (managed) box

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 5:57 pm
by Eran
Yeah, It's hard to believe that a serious hosting company on a managed server won't let you install SVN. Maybe it's time to changed companies...

Re: Subversion on my dedicated (managed) box

Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 11:36 pm
by Luke
Well they are actually a fantastic host and we've been really happy with them. I dont have the time to be a server admin (or the patience), so it works out really well for me. They just haven't had any customers who wanted subversion before I guess.

Re: Subversion on my dedicated (managed) box

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:11 am
by Eran
I have a managed VPS with servInt. Up until now, every little thing I wanted done, they did with no questions asked (PHP and apache upgrades, SVN, Phing, Zend Platform, you name it). SVN is pretty basic for development nowadays...