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SVN - Version control system on Amazon EC2

There are number of hosted SVN providers who offer hosting services along with add-on services like project management, bug tracking etc. If your requirement is purely to host the version control system we may end up paying little bit premium for the add-on services. The charges tend to increase when your storage requirements increases. You may compare the prices offered by Unfuddle and Beanstalk . If your storage requirement is about 10 GB and you have would like to install your own SVN server, you can save significantly by going for Amazon EC2 micro instance. I detailed the steps below to get your SVN server up and running. 1) Go for reserved Amazon EC2 instance on a long term plan ( 1 year/3 years). Choose micro instance that costs about $54 annually and a monthly recurring fee about $7. 2) Launch new instance from EC2 tab of Amazon web services customer portal. 3)Choose Basic 32-bit Amazon Linux AMI and Continue to next option. 4) In the above screen choose Instance type as &qu