Child of the Machine

I’ve had my hosting with Dreamhost now for a little over a and have been very happy with!!! I was previously using Site Ground but converted for the following reasons:

• Dreamhost allows you to host unlimited domains, databases, email etc under your account
• Dreamhost allows complete control of your DNS (so you can point a domain/sub domain to your home test/dev server)
• Dreamhost has shell access – YES REALLY!! Mind you you won’t need it with how much you can do through their web interface…
• Dreamhost has Subversion (SVN) so you can setup source code repositories to manage all your source code…

I’d highly suggest them to anyone looking for a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) new hosting provider! I’ve also arranged a promotion code that will get you $50 off… To put that in perspective that is nearly half of a years worth of hosting which is currently $119… It’s not valid if you sign up for less than a year though…

Sign up now using the promo code GIVEME50OFF when signing up…

Or if you’re not convinced, check out their features first, they sell themselves..

WebSVN is an amazing PHP based interface in to your subversion repositories. Consider it a glossy online GUI to your code! This is a basic tutorial to set it up on your web server…

I should note in advance that I use Dreamhost as my hosting provider, so you’ll need to double check your exact configuration for yourself… Also I am about to install WebSVN 2.0…

1. Use your favourite SVN client to check out http://websvn.tigris.org/svn/websvn/tags/2.0/. (username: guest, no password).
2. Rename the file ./includes/distconfig.php to ./includes/config.php
3. Open your config.php and make at least the following changes:

   $config->setSVNCommandPath('/usr/bin/');
   $config->setDiffPath('/usr/bin/');

   and

   $config->parentPath('/home/username/svn/');

4. Lastly copy the files to a directory under your website

Now you’ve got a great online subversion browser… But this doesn’t have any user restriction yet, more on this soon ;)