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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="https://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="https://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="https://wiki.hcoop.net/Hardware">servers</a> are
20 colocated at <a href="https://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 request so long as we have the
35 resources for it. As we add more storage, all members
36 benefit. We can accomodate up to around 60G per member
37 currently. </td></tr>
38
39 <tr><td><strong>Bandwidth</strong></td><td>We currently have a 5Mbps
40 connection (<a
41 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing">95th
42 percentile</a> billing) burstable to 100Mbps. If your sites see less
43 than fifty or so gigabytes of traffic per month, we can feasibly
44 host you.</td></tr>
45
46 <tr><td><strong>OpenAFS</strong></td><td>A
47 publicly accessible <a
48 href="https://openafs.org">OpenAFS</a> cell
49 (<tt>/afs/hcoop.net/</tt> the whole world
50 round). This lets you access your HCoop storage as
51 if it were local disk on every major operating
52 system.</td></tr>
53
54 <tr><td><strong>Web Hosting</strong></td><td>General web hosting
55 with Apache, featuring the usual languages (Perl, PHP, Python)
56 and databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL). Unlike many providers,
57 we'll install most anything available in Debian so you can run
58 that Haskell web application with ease.</td></tr>
59
60 <tr><td><strong>Email</strong></td><td>Mail hosting for unlimited
61 domains (including <a
62 href="https://webmail.hcoop.net">webmail</a> through Roundcube,
63 IMAP, and POP3 access), with the ability to create virtual
64 mailboxes for friends and family.</td></tr>
65
66 <tr><td><strong>Mailing Lists</strong></td><td>Mailing lists through
67 GNU Mailman. Members <a
68 href="https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/">host lists</a> for pretty
69 much anything: volunteer organizations, Linux User Groups,
70 programming language development, even coordinating homebrewing
71 sessions.</td></tr>
72
73 <tr><td><strong>Shell</strong></td><td>A shell account on a machine running Debian's
74 latest stable release. We don't mind folks idling
75 on Freenode, and you're free to do things like
76 building software.</td></tr>
77
78 <tr><td><strong>Etc.</strong></td><td>Volunteers host shared
79 services for the benefit of all members. These currently include
80 a <a href="https://git.hcoop.net">git server</a>, managed <a
81 href="https://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a> install, and Jabber
82 (<tt>YOU@hcoop.net</tt>). We hope to offer GNU Mediagoblin,
83 Diaspora*, Gitorious, darcsweb, and other services in the future
84 (or: insert your idea here).</td></tr>
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