[ANNOUNCE] Tcl-friendly colocated machine on the net
Jacob Levy
neglected to say that my previous message was an *announcement*, and
also didn't include a basic description of the setup, and an estimate
of the cost. I'm fixing both of these problems here. --JYL]
Together with several friends, I'm running a Tcl-friendly colocated
host on the net. The machine is a dual-Xeon 2GHz with 2GB of RAM, 10GB
of disk, running Linux RH 7.3. The network connection is triple-homed
with UUNet, Sprint and Genuity. Aggregate network bandwidth exceeds
1GB/second. We have a bandwidth allocation of 40GB inbound and 40GB
outbound per month.
All storage is hardware RAID-0 for performance and fault tolerance.
All user file systems are backed up by the colocation company, and we
back up important system files as an additional measure of safety.
Uptime so far (4 months since we started) has been very good. We've
had one scheduled downtime to upgrade from RH 7.2 to 7.3, and one
unscheduled outage lasting 2 hours.
If you're interested and join us, you will have full access to the
machine (including the ability to run servers of your choice). Want to
run AOLserver/OpenACS? No problem. Apache-rivet? We already have that.
How about mySQL? It's installed already. You can set up so your
servers start on reboot.
All resources are shared on a fair-share basis. You get 1/N of the
disk space, bandwidth and CPU power, where N is how many members we
have.
We provide the following additional services:
* DNS service for your domains is included for free if desired (in
other words, you can have your domain point at our IP address).
* Virtual hosting for your website on the standard port 80, and
virtual hosting of a secure (https) website with your domain name on
the standard port 443.
* Email service, including <yourname>@<yourhost>, and any number of
email accounts, email mailing lists and mail-only users. We provide
web based email reading via SquirrelMail as well as local (shell)
email reading and remote email via IMAP and POP3. We provide web based
email administration. All web based email reading and admin is on the
secure (https) website.
* Web based mySQL administration via phpMyAdmin.
* Web logs powered by "Movable Type".
* Discussion forums powered by phpBB.
* Virus and spam filtering.
* Shell access via ssh (on Windows we recommend you use putty) and
file copying into the machine via scp (on Windows use pscp).
* Complete development system including gcc, gdb, etc.
* Remote X11 desktop display via VNC and stunnel.
OK, so the cost for all of this is US$ 140/year prepaid.
If you've read this far and are interested, drop me email at
j...@mod3.net or j...@best.com.
--JYL