what.shtml

   1 <!--#include file="header.html" -->
   2 <div id="main">
   3 <h3>What We Offer</h3>
   4
   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>
  17
  18 <p>Our <a href="https://wiki.hcoop.net/Hardware">servers</a> are
  19 hosted as virtual infrastructure at <a
  20 href="https://www.digitalocean.com">DigitalOcean</a> in New York
  21 City.</p>
  22
  23 <table>
  24   <colgroup>
  25     <col style="width: 25%" />
  26       <col style="width: 70%" />
  27   </colgroup>
  28
  29   <tr><td><strong>Storage</strong></td><td>Ten gigabytes of <a
  30       href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive">SSD
  31       based</a> storage to start. You can request more disk space as
  32       needed; we have quotas in place to prevent over-subscription of
  33       storage and will grant any reasonable request. We can accomodate
  34       around 60G per member currently.</td></tr>
  35
  36   <tr><td><strong>Bandwidth</strong></td><td>We currently have around
  37   20TB per month outbound transfer quota shared between all
  38   servers. If your sites see less than fifty or a hundred gigabytes of
  39   traffic per month, we can feasibly host you.</td></tr>
  40
  41   <tr><td><strong>OpenAFS</strong></td><td>A
  42       publicly accessible <a
  43         href="https://openafs.org">OpenAFS</a> cell
  44       (<tt>/afs/hcoop.net/</tt> the whole world
  45       round). This lets you access your HCoop storage as
  46       if it were local disk on every major operating
  47       system.</td></tr>
  48
  49   <tr><td><strong>Web Hosting</strong></td><td>General web hosting
  50         with Apache, featuring the usual languages (Perl, PHP, Python)
  51         and databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL). Unlike many providers,
  52         we'll install most anything available in Debian so you can run
  53         that Haskell web application with ease.</td></tr>
  54
  55   <tr><td><strong>Email</strong></td><td>Mail hosting for unlimited
  56       domains (including <a
  57       href="https://webmail.hcoop.net">webmail</a> through Roundcube,
  58       IMAP, and POP3 access), with the ability to create virtual
  59       mailboxes for friends and family.</td></tr>
  60
  61   <tr><td><strong>Mailing Lists</strong></td><td>Mailing lists through
  62   GNU Mailman. Members <a
  63   href="https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/">host lists</a> for pretty
  64   much anything: volunteer organizations, Linux User Groups,
  65   programming language development, even coordinating homebrewing
  66   sessions.</td></tr>
  67
  68   <tr><td><strong>Shell</strong></td><td>A shell account on a machine running Debian's
  69       latest stable release. We don't mind folks idling
  70       on Freenode, and you're free to do things like
  71       building software.</td></tr>
  72
  73   <tr><td><strong>Etc.</strong></td><td>Volunteers host shared
  74       services for the benefit of all members. These currently include
  75       a <a href="https://git.hcoop.net">git server</a>, managed <a
  76       href="https://moinmo.in/">MoinMoin</a> install, and Jabber
  77       (<tt>YOU@hcoop.net</tt>). We hope to offer GNU Mediagoblin,
  78       Diaspora*, Gitorious, darcsweb, and other services in the future
  79       (or: insert your idea here).</td></tr>
  80 </table>
  81 </div>
  82 <!--#include file="footer.html" -->