Also, for a lot of SVN history running it required such a specific Apache webserver setup that it was at times complex to configure correctly and made it comparatively expensive to find SVN repository hosts. SVN seemed cheap mostly only if you had cheap labor for infrastructure. Very few hosts got to "forge scale" like SourceForge did with CVS or GitHub would eventually/"quickly" do with git.

git-svn did wonders when we had the code base on subversion