Question

We use a simple shared webhosting provider but now I want to use version management on the uploaded files.

I tried Tortoise SVN and PHProjekt but they both only use offline files
Is there a program of online tool that keeps track of version-history on online files with ftp of something?

Doesn’t have to be free but would be better ofcource

Answer 1

We use a simple shared webhosting provider but now I want to use version management on the uploaded files.

If you’re talking about code, having version control on a shared web space usually not really an option, and it is also not the best way to go.
You’ll find that the most common pattern that is being used in web site projects is a deployment-based one, meaning

• People work on their local code base

• Changes are checked into a SVN repository (locally hosted or with an on-line service like Assembla)

• Changes are checked out from the repository, and deployed to the web site, often using FTP, often using an automated script

this saves you the mess of having version controlled stuff online – what goes online is a cleaned-up, defined revision in the SVN repository.

I’ve tried building versioning and deployment on shared hosting several times, and my finding what there’s no clean way to do it.