Having your sources (the private projects) only on one machines is not a good idea. The need of creating backups is obvious, but much more convenient for any developer is to be able to store source files in outer version control system. A few weeks ago I have discovered Assembla. It was a great site, that offered free svn hosting (200MB of space), free trac and many more services that most of developers would find very useful. Unfortunately I just got an email from Assembla, where the staff informs that within a month they stop offering private free spaces. You just have to decide if you want to convert your space to public one (i.e. publicly available to anyone) or you prefer to pay for a private one. Well... I choose neither. Instead I started looking for an alternative. It is quite hard, because Assembla was not only a svn hosting, but for me it was the most important service. I think that XP-Dev and Codespaces are worth trying. I just hope that there will be a free svn hosting service for all people developing free projects (not only open source, but also closed source free). I think it will be a great loss if there is no such a possibility.
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