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1 .SH tgtimes | |
2 Hosting Providers Projects | |
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4 .PP | |
5 While hosting a server at home has its benefits (and its charms), | |
6 some interesting hosting providers do a good job at sharing all | |
7 the fun that hosting servers can have while still handling the | |
8 long-winged work of keeping the hypervisors up and running. | |
9 . | |
10 .PP | |
11 Efforts also coming from the community that sometimes take part | |
12 into the project, or in reverse, hosting providers contributing | |
13 to help community projects, either through funds or bug-fixing. | |
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15 .IP "sdf.org " | |
16 Around since as early as 1987, the Super Dimension Fortress | |
17 describes itself as a public access supercomputing center. | |
18 An invitation to jump both feet into the UNIX culture featuring | |
19 games, email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace, | |
20 programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and more. | |
21 A different sense of community than the one offered by social | |
22 networks. | |
23 . | |
24 .IP "sdfeu.org " | |
25 Joint effort with the north Amercian sdf.org, the European | |
26 counterpart will have a better network latency for European, | |
27 Middle east, and African users. | |
28 . | |
29 .IP "grex.org " | |
30 Grex brings democracy to hosting, a concept little explored by | |
31 commercial hosting providers: open access, but also owned by | |
32 its members who can vote on what to plan next for Grex. | |
33 Also a good pretext to get around a good meal during the Grex | |
34 conferences. | |
35 . | |
36 .IP "openbsd.amsterdam " | |
37 A hosting provider running OpenBSD for its entire stack, | |
38 including the hypervisor itself: \fCvmm(4)\fR. It permits | |
39 its user to connect directly onto the hypervisor through | |
40 SSH and run commands such as \fCvmctl vm02 restart\fR. | |
41 . | |
42 .IP "blinkenshell.org " | |
43 Younger by a few years, this open shell project lets you | |
44 give Linux a try. Occasion to make someone discover the | |
45 world of command-line and programming through the editor | |
46 and compilers installed up there. | |
47 . | |
48 .IP "prgmr.com " | |
49 While keeping a commercial model, this Xen-based hosting | |
50 provider offers a command-line approach to hosting, and | |
51 consider the user as a respectable admin rather than a | |
52 supermarket customer. |