Hosted Tfs

This is a really great site, I regularly send posts to my friends!  You may want to check this site [www.phase2.com] for our version of hosted TFS.  They have our own internal team of developers and offer TFS at a mere fraction of what TFS Now sells it for.The guys over at Phase 2 provided me a TFS server and I was surprised at both how quickly they came up with it and how fast it was. The worry was that they would be providing a cut down version, like Codeplex, but it is fully featured and has Reporting Services, Sharepoint and Analytical services hosted tfs . I tested Excel reporting (now Microsoft's recommended method, RS is dead, yippee) and customizing Work items. Theyprovide dedicated services and offer custom bundles.   A standard single-server deployment for TFS is good for about 100 users, beyond which we'd need to move to multiple front-end servers with at least one backend data-tier server and hosted team foundation server.  We are scaling up from blade arrays to very powerful IBM x-series 4- and 6-way servers (all running virtuals, of course) over the next few weeks so we don't yet know what our upper limit is going to be per server.  For a custom bundle such as this, economies of scale would certainly apply.You will be able to access all of your electronic information simply by a click of your home computer. If you do spend hours commuting each day, odds are pretty good that this sounds great to you! There are some people out there who don't mind having to commute each day, but this option must sound appealing to everyone. The only thing that could be a drawback to working out of your home would have to work while you have young kids at home. While it is great to be able to work right at home where your kids are, it will also be hard to focus on your work. If you do have young children at home it would be highly beneficial to have tfs hosting at home office that would be off limits to the children so you could get some serious work done if needed.

So, a fantastic offering. It should be pointed out that I was using a http connection to the server and not https, but I am sure that it will be available. The costs are very reasonable and a lot better than TFS Now, which I was going to compare to, but alas their site is down at the time of writing.