Tooey ( Stuart James )

 As many developers do I always "try" to use source control all the time for every project. There are a large variety of different source control and I am far from used them all and I'm sure you could argue that this does x better and that does y better. But for ease of use I have to commend Sourcegear Vault.

I have used a couple of source controls enough to have a opinion on so far in my development career. Many would argue the worst two 

• Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)

I do all my development on Windows using Visual Studio and I use a variety of Visual Studios from 6 - 2010 for all sorts of reasons. My current main is VS2008.

VSS is a very very starter source control, I would never recommend for really more than 2 people even me working on my smallish projects have caused problems within VSS, it has a web component too it but I have never managed to get it to work even running on my SBS Server.

Team Foundation Server is a professional source control software BUT has a huge problem of you need a professional to install and maintain the beast. I've managed to install it all but it took a long long long time to get it right and several uninstalls and many many restarts. This is a source control not for the faint of heart and with its heavy price tag and demanding requirements its not cheap.

So now we get to my new one SourceGear Vault, this I installed today it has a perk that for one user its free! This works well for me. Now I am a little naughty and am using it on my VPS and to be honest I didn't think it would work I've never managed to have much luck working remotely with source control. But to my astonishment after setting up it took just minutes to upload my current 3D Engine... 

I was a little astonished how successful SourceGear worked I have alot of way to go to really get to grips and it did take me a while to correct my very stupid mistake of using the wrong Vault Server address, just to note after you install and have got up 

 http://domainname/VaultService/VaultService.asmx

That should look like this:  

Then all you need for the Vault Server address is hostname/VaultService/

So your login looks like this 

Finally just so you know you can run it on a VPS with low spec's mine is a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64bit VPS with 1gb RAM and installed is SqlExpress server running several websites. 

Have a look at http://www.sourcegear.com/vault/ for more details about Vault.