I spent the better part of the day yesterday installing, configuring and playing around with Vault 3.  I needed a good, shared source control provider, preferably one that I could run on my hosting account at WebHost4Life over IIS and SQL. 

First, installation on my local machine was a snap!  The installer worked great, with no surprises. The application itself just worked. Yep. I didn't even read any docs, the thing just worked.  And when I say “worked”  I don't mean, “well took me a while to get my accounts and databases and connections setup, then it worked” ala VSS - it just worked. The server, the client, the whole thing. Perfect.

Once I had it working locally, I attempted to get it running on my shared WebHost4Life account.   This was a bit more difficult, but relatively simple if you're used to installing software on a shared web host.  The support forums helped a great deal.  If anyone's interested, I can post a walk through on how to do this.

So, here's a list of the things they got right.

Overall design model - WebServices/SQL Server - Right!
Installation - Good installer/optional xcopy  - Right!
Ability to run on shared host - Right!
Good support - Right!
Multiple Clients - Web/Standalone/Visual Studio Integration - Right!

Finally, the app just blows VSS out of the water, it's much much faster and easier to use.   Can't say enough good things about it. 

-Brendan