Mercurial Hosting

Services that provide hosting of Mercurial repositories.

1. Free services

The following is a list of services that offer hosting at no cost including sites that additionally offer paid services. Among those web sites, most require proprietary JavaScript to register or even to display the content, including code from unrelated third parties (Google reCAPTCHA or similar). Puszcza and Savannah do not require proprietary software to use.

• OSDN: A free-of-charge service for open source software developers. Some of the features: wiki, bug tracker, shell access and project web site hosting.

• Puszcza: A hosting service for free (libre) software that uses the savane software. Operated by Sergey Poznyakoff.

• Savannah: Free software hosting for people committed to free software, supports Mercurial and the repositories are accessible via hgweb. Uses the savane software.

• SourceForge.net: Free hosting for open-source software. Supports Hg and many other project features (wiki, issues, mailing lists, forums, etc)

• TuxFamily.org.

• foss.heptapod.net: Free hosting for Free and Open Source Software. A standard Heptapod instance (see below), with shared CI runners and Bitbucket import. Project creation by a Hosting Request process.

• Perforce.com: Free Mercurial Hosting with Helix TeamHub: “Helix TeamHub is free for up to 5 users and 1 GB of data storage.”

• hg.reactionary.software: Simple free hosting

2. Paid services

• A2 Hosting - Mercurial comes pre-installed on each Web Hosting and Managed VPS or auto-install it with the exclusive A2 Quickinstaller on your VPS Hosting account.

• Cinnabar - 5 USD/month for unlimited projects & users; 1GiB storage; flexible team assignments; snappy web interface; actively developed. First 45 days free and ongoing discounts for early adopters. Issue tracking, wiki & integrations on the way!

• Codebase - Offers a free plan for small-sized Repositories (Mercurial, Git, and Subversion). Polished web interface. SSH and HTTP.

• FogBugz offers services including Mercurial hosting from 75 USD per month for up to five users.

• Helix TeamHub from Perforce provides Mercurial, Git, and SVN hosting, role-based access control with LDAP/AD integration. Can be installed on-premises or used as a hosted service (free for up to 5 users and 1GB of data storage).

• heptapod.host is a Heptapod instance (GitLab modified for Mercurial) managed by Octobus and Clever Cloud. Pricing based on active users and resources above a threshold.

• GoSSDHosting - Install Mercurial in 1 click from your control panel. Low-cost web hosting plans start at $15 or get Mercurial now. VPS Hosting

• HostStage - 1 click Installation of Mercurial from your own control panel access. Low-cost web hosting plans starting from $1.95 or Get Mercurial on Linux VPS

• Ingate Mercurial, Git and Subversion hosting - either shared or on dedicated cloud servers

• MilesWeb Hosting Get pre-installed Mercurial, Trac, Git and Subversion repositories on Linux VPS Hosting server.

• Phabricator provides Mercurial/Git/SVN hosting with project management features like issue tracking, code review and chat channels.

• RepositoryHosting provides Mercurial/Git/SVN hosting with Trac.

• RoseHosting offers fully-managed Mercurial hosting with free 24/7 technical support and free website migrations. Contact their support team and they will install Mercurial for you for free.

• sourcehut Public, private, and "unlisted" repositories. Part of the sourcehut platform. No JavaScript.

• SourceRepo provides Mercurial/Git/SVN hosting with Trac/Redmine project tracking.

• XP-Dev.com provides Mercurial hosting, project tracking and integration with various other projects/issue tracking tools.

• Versionshelf provides Mercurial and SVN hosting and integration with various other services.

3. Self-Hosting software

• Helix TeamHub from Perforce provides Mercurial, Git, and SVN hosting, role-based access control with LDAP/AD integration. Can be installed on-premises or used as a hosted service (free for up to 5 users and 1GB of data storage).

• Heptapod - Heptapod is a friendly fork of GitLab Community Edition providing support for Mercurial. It was presented at the Mercurial conference 2019 in Paris and at FOSDEM 2020 (video available).

• hgkeeper is an server for Mercurial repositories. It provides access control for SSH access and public HTTP access via hgweb.

• HgLab - Built for Windows, HgLab is a Mercurial source control management system for with push and pull server, repository browser and a whole slew of other goodies.

• Kallithea is free software that provides Mercurial and Git hosting. It has support for pull requests and a built-in review system.

• Phabricator can be freely self-hosted and provides Mercurial/Git/SVN hosting with project management features like issue tracking, code review and chat channels (identical to the paid service detailed above, but self-hosted instead).

• RhodeCode Enterprise - RhodeCode provides support for Mercurial, Git, and Subversion. Supports http/https/ssh protocols, code-review, advanced permission system, IP restrictions, web based file editing, side-by-side diffs, snippets (gist) system and pluggable authentication system. It comes in two variants free Community edition and paid Enterprise.

• Savane: The software used by Puszcza and Savannah.

• SCM-Manager - SCM-Manager is described as "The easiest way to share and manage your Git, Mercurial and Subversion repositories over http."

• sourcehut - free & open-source software offering hosted Mercurial & Git repos with continuous integration, tickets, mailing lists, wikis.

• Trac is a free & open source bug tracker, code browser and wiki with support for Mercurial. It is written in Python, extendable with many plugins, and has low and flexible installation requirements.

4. Historical sites

Web sites that offered Mercurial hosting but no longer do or are offline now. This list may be useful in case they restart activities.

• Alioth: Announcement of closure (it is still online as of 2017-11-14 UTC but has technical problems).

• Bitbucket: Offered Mercurial hosting until 2020-05-31, before going Git-only.

• CodePlex: Announcement of closure.

• KForge: Offline as of 2017-11-14 UTC.

• ShareSource.org: Offline as of 2017-11-14 UTC.

5. Comparison table with Mercurial-specific features

The primary goal of this table was to compare other hosting platforms against Bitbucket, that's why it's still there even though it has dropped support for Mercurial in 2020 (Bitbucket end-of-support announcement).

General information and features not related to Mercurial can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source_code_hosting_facilities

• Shared: there's a public instance that allows 3rd-party users to host their projects

• Free: there is a free plan on one of these public instances

• Self-hosting: it's possible to set up on-premises and it supports Mercurial (i.e. not like Bitbucket Server)

• Evolve: supports ChangesetEvolution

• Topics: shows changeset topics in the UI

• Clonebundles: provides data generated by ClonebundlesExtension, a large-repo optimization on the initial clone, useful for CI

• Pullbundles: similar to clonebundles, but usable for pulls too, useful for users

• SSH push: all ACLs and features are supported when pushing via SSH

• Versions: versions of Mercurial and EvolveExtension that are used or supported server-side

6. See also

• PublishingRepositories for setting up your own Mercurial servers

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