Codesion free Subversion hosting: Fail

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I thought I’d try cloud hosting for source code version control. I’ve been using version control on my local box, but figured it’d be better to have that stuff stored offsite so that I can get to it from wherever I am.

Codesion came highly recommended, and I was pleased with the ease of setting up a new trial account. At least, I was impressed until I tried to access my new repository. If I try to access it from my Subversion command line client, I get this message:

svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://jimmischel.svn.cvsdude.com/jimsstuff'
svn: E175002: The OPTIONS request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at line 1: no element found (https://jimmischel.svn.cvsdude.com/jimsstuff)

I get a similar error if I try to access it with the TortoiseSVN GUI client.

So I thought maybe I misread the terms of the free trial. I went to the Codesion site and tried to view the repository with their ViewVC browser. The result is a browser window containing this information:

An Exception Has Occurred

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/services/viewvc_template/lib/viewvc.py", line 4396, in main
    request.run_viewvc()
  File "/services/viewvc_template/lib/viewvc.py", line 268, in run_viewvc
    self.repos.open()
  File "/services/viewvc_template/lib/vclib/svn/svn_ra.py", line 204, in open
    self.ctx.config)
  File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libsvn/ra.py", line 518, in svn_ra_open
    return apply(_ra.svn_ra_open, args)
SubversionException: 175002 - Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://10.36.235.136/svn/jimmischel/jimsstuff'
175002 - The OPTIONS request returned invalid XML in the response: XML parse error at line 1: no element found (http://10.36.235.136/svn/jimmischel/jimsstuff)

Checking their online forums, it looks as though others have had similar issues in the past few weeks. Sorry, Codesion. If you can’t get a simple free trial to work, I’m not going to trust you with my source code.

There are dozens of sites that offer free or inexpensive Subversion hosting. I don’t have the time or inclination to try every one of them. Anybody have a recommendation?

And, no, I’m not interested in using GIT. Please don’t suggest it.