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Backlogs is one of the best plugins for Redmine. It allows you to work in an agile way by creating stories, tasks and displaying beautiful charts showing the project's progress.

Installing Backlogs is quite easy. It gets a little bit complicated when you try to install it in the restrictive environment of a shared hosting provider like Hostgator. But it can be done.

Pushing the limits of the shared hosting account at Hostgator again. This time I've decided to install Redmine in order to track the progress of my private projects.

The nice thing about Hostgator is that they offer, besides the standard PHP, the increasingly popular Python and Ruby on Rails. And this can prove quite handy if you want to do more with your hosting than the average Wordpress and Drupal installs.

After hearing my colleagues talking today about how cheap the VPS got in the last few years, I almost convinced myself that I have to switch. But I've decided to give my old shared hosting package from Hostgator another try. Buying a VPS package only to install Git is not the smartest thing to do, as you can get better and cheaper services from source code hosting providers like github.com or bitbucket.org.

Hostgator always had the option to enable the SSH access to your shared hosting account. But only recently I've noticed how is to enable it. First time when I tried to activate the SSH access, they were requiring a scan your ID card with a clear photo on it. That proved to be too much for me.