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Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > Even with a good infrastructure, people may have a server on a LAN behind > an ADSL connection with very poor upload speeds. Getting a decent two-way > connection or renting a dedicated server with a good connection in many > places costs more than an additional programmer on the team... Renting servers is dirt cheap - I rent one in the US... I pay $60 a month but get 224MB RAM, 75GB/month transfer and a 100MB burst speed... far more than is needed for cvs (it also runs the wiki & mailing list, which need the RAM during peak times). I've got another server on an ADSL connection... ADSL is not slow - it's more than fast enough for a cvs tree... the entire cvsnt setup was run on an ADSL connection for years. Synchronising overnight will not work since you can be 12 hours behind the development - synchronisation is better done on short intervals - 5-15 minutes, so you have some idea of the current state of the tree. Dialup can't really do that (it can't do the 8 our thing either - an 8 hour phone call every day of the week at UK prices 8 hours * 31 days = 5* the cost of a DSL line... just not worth the effort.. and those economics haven't changed even from the days we used to pay £1000/month for a 64kb leased line vs per minute cost of ISDN (dialup was too unreliable back then and had trouble staying connected for 8 minutes let alone 8 hours)). We're talking about *business* here not a single user working at home. A business that won't invest in its infrastructure isn't going to last very long. Tony