Our service is built upon Debian GNU/Linux, Kerberos, OpenAFS, and our custom services manager Domtool. 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.
We support Free Software, and release all of our custom software under Free licenses, and are committed to using only Free Software in our infrastructure.
Our servers are colocated at Peer1 in New York City. They have excellent connectivity, several layers of power redundancy, and helpful on-site staff.
| Storage | 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. |
| Bandwidth | We currently have 5Mbps (95th percentile 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). |
| OpenAFS | A publically accessible OpenAFS cell (/afs/hcoop.net/ the whole world round). This lets you access your HCoop storage as if it were local disk on every major operating system. |
| Web Hosting | 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. |
| Mail hosting for unlimited domains (including webmail through Roundcube), with the ability to create virtual mailboxes for friends and family. | |
| Mailing Lists | Mailing lists through GNU Mailman. |
| Shell | 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. |
| Etc. | Shared services for the benefit of all members. These currently include a git server, managed MoinMoin install, and Jabber chat. We hope to offer GNU Mediagoblin, Diaspora*, Gitorious, darcsweb, and other services in the future. |