http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1364
Code snippet to protect .svn / .bzr / CVS directories within apache via the .htaccess file for a single site.
http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1365
Code snippet to protect .svn / .bzr / CVS directories within apache system wide in the httpd.conf file.
http://publicfile.org/
publicfile.org is a site that distributes extensions / additions / enhancements to publicfile, the static content only http / ftp server.
http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html
publicfile is a http / ftp server which only serves static content, but does so extremely effectively. It's a popular choice for static file hosting systems.