For a long time I’ve hosted my sites on a MediaTemple VPS or Virtual Private Server. For a pricey $50 a month you get a pretty nice package and 24/7 support but recently I was turned onto Slicehost. They offer great plans for very reasonable prices and great support too (always important).

They also offer a choice of operating systems, not forcing me to use my now least favourite operating system: centOS. I chose ubuntu and following on from last weeks post about project management, I will talk about how to install and configure a subversion server running on Ubuntu 8.0.4.

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