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									<h3>What We Offer</h3>
		

	      <p>Our service is built upon Debian GNU/Linux, Kerberos,
	      OpenAFS, and our custom services manager <a
	      href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/DomTool">Domtool</a>. Using
	      Domtool, you can configure the behavior of your domains
	      and sites in shared daemons without needing to request
	      anything from a superuser. Since we provide a generic
	      Debian GNU/Linux shell, you can write and run your own
	      daemons in whatever programming language you fancy.</p>

	      <p>We support Free Software, and release all of our
	      custom software <a
	      href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/Code">under Free
	      licenses</a>, and are committed to using only Free
	      Software in our infrastructure.</p>

	      <p>Our <a
	      href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/Hardware">servers</a> are
	      colocated at <a href="http://peer1.net">Peer1</a> in New
	      York City. They have excellent connectivity, several
	      layers of power redundancy, and helpful on-site
	      staff.</p>

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		<tr><td><strong>Storage</strong></td><td> Around ten
		    gigabytes of storage. You can request more disk
		    space as needed; our quotas are only in place to
		    prevent oversubscription of storage. As we add
		    more storage, all members benefit.</td></tr>

		<tr><td><strong>Bandwidth</strong></td><td>We
		currently have 5Mbps (<a
		href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing">95th
		percentile</a> billing) burstable to 100Mbps. If your
		sites see less than a hundred or so gigabytes of
		traffic per months, we can feasibly host you. As
		membership expands, we intend to get more bandwidth
		(hopefully 100Mbps unmetered eventually).</td></tr>


		<tr><td><strong>OpenAFS</strong></td><td>A
		    publically accessible <a
		      href="http://openafs.org">OpenAFS</a> cell
		    (<tt>/afs/hcoop.net/</tt> the whole world
		    round). This lets you access your HCoop storage as
		    if it were local disk on every major operating
		    system.</td></tr>
		
		<tr><td><strong>Web
		      Hosting</strong></td><td>General web hosting with
		    Apache, featuring the usual languages (perl, php,
		    python) and databases (PostgreSQL and
		    MySQL). Unlike many providers, we'll install most
		    anything available in Debian so you can run that
		    Haskell web application with ease.</td></tr>
		
		<tr><td><strong>Email</strong></td><td>Mail hosting for unlimited domains (including
		    <a href="https://webmail.hcoop.net">webmail</a>
		    through Roundcube), with the ability to create
		    virtual mailboxes for friends and family.</td></tr>
		
		<tr><td><strong>Mailing Lists</strong></td><td>Mailing lists through GNU Mailman.</td></tr>
		
		<tr><td><strong>Shell</strong></td><td>A shell account on a machine running Debian's
		    latest stable release. We don't mind folks idling
		    on Freenode, and you're free to do things like
		    building software.</td></tr>
		
		<tr><td><strong>Etc.</strong></td><td>Shared services for the benefit of all
		    members. These currently include a <a
		      href="http://git.hcoop.net">git server</a>,
		    managed <a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a>
		    install, and Jabber chat. We hope to offer GNU
		    Mediagoblin, Diaspora*, Gitorious, darcsweb, and
		    other services in the future.</td></tr>
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