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   3 <h3>What We Offer</h3>
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   5 <p>Our service is built upon Debian GNU/Linux, Kerberos,
   6 OpenAFS, and our custom services manager <a
   7 href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/DomTool">Domtool</a>. Using
   8 Domtool, you can configure the behavior of your domains
   9 and sites in shared daemons without needing to request
  10 anything from a superuser. Since we provide a generic
  11 Debian GNU/Linux shell, you can write and run your own
  12 daemons in whatever programming language you fancy.</p>
  13
  14 <p>We support Free Software, releasing all of our custom software <a
  15 href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/Code">under Free licenses</a>, and using
  16 only Free Software for our infrastructure.</p>
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  18 <p>Our <a
  19 href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/Hardware">servers</a> are
  20 colocated at <a href="http://peer1.net">Peer1</a> in New
  21 York City. They have excellent connectivity, several
  22 layers of power redundancy, and helpful on-site
  23 staff.</p>
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  31   <tr><td><strong>Storage</strong></td><td>Around ten gigabytes of
  32       storage. You can request more disk space as needed; we have
  33       quotas in place to prevent over-subscription of storage and
  34       strive to grant any reasonable requests so long as we have the
  35       resources for it. As we add more storage, all members
  36       benefit.</td></tr>
  37
  38   <tr><td><strong>Bandwidth</strong></td><td>We currently have a 5Mbps
  39   connection (<a
  40   href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing">95th
  41   percentile</a> billing) burstable to 100Mbps. If your sites see less
  42   than fifty or so gigabytes of traffic per month, we can feasibly
  43   host you.</td></tr>
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  45   <tr><td><strong>OpenAFS</strong></td><td>A
  46       publicly accessible <a
  47         href="http://openafs.org">OpenAFS</a> cell
  48       (<tt>/afs/hcoop.net/</tt> the whole world
  49       round). This lets you access your HCoop storage as
  50       if it were local disk on every major operating
  51       system.</td></tr>
  52
  53   <tr><td><strong>Web Hosting</strong></td><td>General web hosting
  54         with Apache, featuring the usual languages (Perl, PHP, Python)
  55         and databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL). Unlike many providers,
  56         we'll install most anything available in Debian so you can run
  57         that Haskell web application with ease.</td></tr>
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  59   <tr><td><strong>Email</strong></td><td>Mail hosting for unlimited
  60       domains (including <a
  61       href="https://webmail.hcoop.net">webmail</a> through Roundcube,
  62       IMAP, and POP3 access), with the ability to create virtual
  63       mailboxes for friends and family.</td></tr>
  64
  65   <tr><td><strong>Mailing Lists</strong></td><td>Mailing lists through
  66   GNU Mailman. Members <a
  67   href="https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/">host lists</a> for pretty
  68   much anything: volunteer organizations, Linux User Groups,
  69   programming language development, even coordinating homebrewing
  70   sessions.</td></tr>
  71
  72   <tr><td><strong>Shell</strong></td><td>A shell account on a machine running Debian's
  73       latest stable release. We don't mind folks idling
  74       on Freenode, and you're free to do things like
  75       building software.</td></tr>
  76
  77   <tr><td><strong>Etc.</strong></td><td>Volunteers host shared
  78       services for the benefit of all members. These currently include
  79       a <a href="http://git.hcoop.net">git server</a>, managed <a
  80       href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a> install, and Jabber
  81       (<tt>YOU@hcoop.net</tt>). We hope to offer GNU Mediagoblin,
  82       Diaspora*, Gitorious, darcsweb, and other services in the future
  83       (or: insert your idea here).</td></tr>
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