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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>
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  14 <p>We support Free Software, and release all of our
  15 custom software <a
  16 href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/Code">under Free
  17 licenses</a>, and are committed to using only Free
  18 Software in our infrastructure.</p>
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  20 <p>Our <a
  21 href="http://wiki.hcoop.net/Hardware">servers</a> are
  22 colocated at <a href="http://peer1.net">Peer1</a> in New
  23 York City. They have excellent connectivity, several
  24 layers of power redundancy, and helpful on-site
  25 staff.</p>
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  33   <tr><td><strong>Storage</strong></td><td> Around ten
  34       gigabytes of storage. You can request more disk
  35       space as needed; our quotas are only in place to
  36       prevent oversubscription of storage. As we add
  37       more storage, all members benefit.</td></tr>
  38
  39   <tr><td><strong>Bandwidth</strong></td><td>We currently have a 5Mbps
  40   connection (<a
  41   href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing">95th
  42   percentile</a> billing) burstable to 100Mbps. If your sites see less
  43   than a hundred or so gigabytes of traffic per months, we can
  44   feasibly host you. As membership expands, we intend to get more
  45   bandwidth (hopefully 100Mbps unmetered eventually).</td></tr>
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  47   <tr><td><strong>OpenAFS</strong></td><td>A
  48       publically accessible <a
  49         href="http://openafs.org">OpenAFS</a> cell
  50       (<tt>/afs/hcoop.net/</tt> the whole world
  51       round). This lets you access your HCoop storage as
  52       if it were local disk on every major operating
  53       system.</td></tr>
  54
  55   <tr><td><strong>Web
  56         Hosting</strong></td><td>General web hosting with
  57       Apache, featuring the usual languages (perl, php,
  58       python) and databases (PostgreSQL and
  59       MySQL). Unlike many providers, we'll install most
  60       anything available in Debian so you can run that
  61       Haskell web application with ease.</td></tr>
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  63   <tr><td><strong>Email</strong></td><td>Mail hosting for unlimited domains (including
  64       <a href="https://webmail.hcoop.net">webmail</a>
  65       through Roundcube), with the ability to create
  66       virtual mailboxes for friends and family.</td></tr>
  67
  68   <tr><td><strong>Mailing Lists</strong></td><td>Mailing lists through GNU Mailman.</td></tr>
  69
  70   <tr><td><strong>Shell</strong></td><td>A shell account on a machine running Debian's
  71       latest stable release. We don't mind folks idling
  72       on Freenode, and you're free to do things like
  73       building software.</td></tr>
  74
  75   <tr><td><strong>Etc.</strong></td><td>Shared services for the benefit of all
  76       members. These currently include a <a
  77         href="http://git.hcoop.net">git server</a>,
  78       managed <a href="http://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a>
  79       install, and Jabber chat. We hope to offer GNU
  80       Mediagoblin, Diaspora*, Gitorious, darcsweb, and
  81       other services in the future.</td></tr>
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