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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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