[Monotone-devel] Re: Monotone server

[Bruce Stephens]

Daniel Carrera <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> If you get a standard hosting package to use as a central server,
> the web host is not going to let you run a separate server program
> on a new port. So if you are a Windows developer and your server is
> a typical web hosting package, you can't use monotone. :-(

I'd have thought a typical web host wouldn't let you install programs
at all, so the ssh option would also fail (since it requires that you
be able to run monotone on the remote host, albeit through ssh)?
(From that point of view you'd be better off with one of the other
systems, all of which (I think) can work just by being able to stick
files on the host.  Or work on monotone's equivalent, which at one
point wasn't far off working, IIRC.)

(Quite possibly I'm mistaken, though, and it's inexpensive to rent a
VM on which you can run whatever programs you like, just without
having random ports open.)