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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
Github. It has a private mode for designated contributors, public wiki, and an issue reporting system. Also, it's free.
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I'm not so worried about the money at this point. I budgeted several thousand dollars of my money to work into this effort regardless of the website maintenace costs. I don't mind bearing that hosting cost for a few years at least and I'm not looking to exert any sort of ownership rights for doing it.
I'm even okay with subfolder hosting for other projects or community members if it's wanted so people can put up their own content. Might be able to further the usage of the root domain's SSL certificate like that.
I'll give Github another look as I recall when I helped start another project there was monthly fee for it. I'm not sure how the licensing issues and other issues might work into their model (see earlier in the topic).
This said hosting this ourselves most of these features we can get from other open source projects. Plus we'll have utter control over the bandwidth, the storage, the databases and whatever web applications we put into the space. Of course many projects use SourceForge but retain their own hosting as well. I do worry, however, that often times when a project uses both SourceForge and their own hosting it's hard to know how the site operations prioritize the usage of the resources and search engine hits can get confusing.
Is there a particular specific function of the services of Github that you think is unique and would be important to this project?