At Melbourne, as well as the day-to-day of running our datacentres, we’ve always got lots of exciting projects on the go; like rolling out a new backup service, or the continuing maintenance and improvements to our customer management system. Many of you will know that it can become a project in itself keeping track of everything that’s going on, especially when it involves software development that may have several programmers involved.
It was with this in mind that we moved to using a software project management tool called Codebase to help track and organize the development of our in-house applications, and we soon realized it was a very good product indeed. In fact we decided it was so good – and that the people responsible for it were very much our kind of people – that we offered to sponsor them and move it all onto dedicated hardware in our new Turing House datacentre, which we can happily say they accepted! You can see details of the move on their blog.
The upshot of this move is that Codebase are now offering all Melbourne customers a free account worth £60 per year, which comes with 3 active projects, 10 users, 500MB disk space for Git, Subversion and Mercurial hosting, ticketing and more all over a secure SSL connection on our super-fast network.
Log onto your support account for more details and to sign up!
We hope you find it as useful a tool as we have 
Andrew Turner, Lead Developer.
“At Melbourne, as well as the day-to-day of running our datacentres, we’ve always got lots of exciting projects on the go; like *rolling out a new
backup service*, or the continuing maintenance and improvements to our customer management system. Many of you will know that it can become
a project in itself keeping track of everything that’s going on, especially when it involves software development that may have several programmers
involved.
It was with this in mind that we moved to using a software project management tool called *codebase* to help track and organize the
development of our in-house applications, and we soon realized it was a very good product indeed. In fact we decided it was so good – and
that the people responsible for it were very much our kind of people – that we offered to sponsor them and move it all onto dedicated
hardware in our new Turing House datacentre, which we can happily say they accepted! You can see details of the move on their *blog*.
The upshot of this move is that *codebase* are now offering all Melbourne customers a free account worth £60 per year, which
comes with 3 active projects, 10 users, 500MB disk space for Git, Subversion and Mercurial hosting, ticketing and more all over
a secure SSL connection on our super-fast network. Log onto your support account for more details and to sign up!
We hope you find it as useful a tool as we have ”