I’ve mentioned in the past that there will be some revenue generation methods that will be put into XP-Dev.com and here’s the first one.

It’s a rather popular and simple model – Advertisement supported for Free users and there’s a small charge to get rid of these advertisements. You get upgraded to a XP-Dev.com Pro account.

To be honest, I’m sure most of you would have predicted that I’d go down this path at some point.

However, the payment to remove the advertisements is really cheap - at only USD $20 a year (with a full 30 day refund policy), will not find a better deal – 1000MB Subversion space, unlimited users/collaborators, unlimited projects and unlimited repositories, along with all the other great features.

You will not only be chipping in for the infrastructure costs, but will be supporting future developments and enhancements for XP-Dev.com.

Just to keep everyone updated on what’s going on behind the scenes – the next generation project tracking is definately underway. Its going to be uber awesome with a ton of features that will make the current XP-Dev.com look insignificant in comparison!

In between now and releasing the next generation project tracking, I can confirm that there will be one infrastructure update. I’ll blog out the details in a few days time.