On Windows, if you are trying to run commands which access internet and stuck behind a proxy; here is a quick solution:

set http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy_ip_address:port

Thanks to Jigar Gosar for pointing this out.

I use http://bluehost.com for hosting all my sites. So far I’m very happy with their service. The only thing I wished they provided was subversion on the servers. But they don’t.

So I decided to find ways of installing subversion on a shared host. While researching about this about, I stumbled upon this excellent post http://joemaller.com/2008/01/29/how-to-install-subversion-on-a-shared-host/ by Joe Maller where is explains step by step how to install SVN on a shared host.