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By Abhishek Ghosh November 30, 2012 8:22 am Updated on November 30, 2012

List of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting For The Developers

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List of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting is mainly intended for the Developers of Free Software and Open Source Projects. This is handy tool plus guide. Basically, source code hosting is not that easy from the backend, most uses some kind of source code escrow software for version control, bug tracking, security of the source code (to protect from changing in to malware scripts) and a documentation for the project. This List of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting mainly focuses on software or application non-specific hosting solutions unless mentioned.

 

Why We Have Published This List of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting For The Developers

 

To help the developers who are working without any monetary gain, as your work might get buried in one repository but might come in to limelight in another. Apart from this, actually this list of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting will work for our own works too !

The reason for using these Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting are :

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  • Free Hosting, does not require to have own hosted website
  • Rapidly indexed by Google, exposing the developer’s skill
  • Collaboration with other developers
  • Exposure and Recognition
  • If Original self hosted package gets corrupted somehow, they acts as a backup

 

List of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting For The Developers

 

List of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting For The Developers
In most cases, you will need a Git Client Software (Toolbelt) to upload, revision the repository. Some has Subversion Repository (SVN) like WordPress Plugin Repository. Basically, the things are coded on UNIX or UNIX Like Operating Systems (Mac OS X / OS X, Various Linux Distributions, BSD etc.), so working from Microsoft Windows OS is a bit painful but not impossibly hard work. For example, we wrote the guide for publishing WordPress Plugin from Windows PC.
GitHub : Probably the most widely known Project Hosting and Code Hosting Solution. Upload is via Git.

SourceForge : Over 13 years old, most feature rich Project Hosting and Code Hosting Solution. The basic advantage is, you can use FTP, browser etc to upload a project.

Google Code : Third most commonly used project hosting solution.

Gitorious : Another well known Git based project hosting solution.

GNU Savannah : Importance is – it is by Free Software Foundation which was founded by Richard Stallman.
There are other Fully Free Project Hosting like Alioth, Alioth, KnowledgeForge etc. non specific options, HotScript like Freemium highly commercial minded solution, as well as Drupal, WordPress, MozDev like specific project hosting solution. It is quite costly to maintain and run a Free Project Hosting, for example GitHub runs on Dedicated Server from Rackspace with SSL. There is need of employees to protect from hacking attempts, spam etc. This is basic reason of limited number of Free Project Hosting.
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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "List of Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting For The Developers," in The Customize Windows, November 30, 2012, May 21, 2022, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2012/11/list-of-free-project-hosting-and-code-hosting-for-the-developers/.

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