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article-tgtimes-hosting-providers.mw (2018B) |
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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 Hosting Providers Projects |
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5 While hosting a server at home has its benefits (and its charms), |
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6 some interesting hosting providers do a good job at sharing all |
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7 the fun that hosting servers can have while still handling the |
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8 long-winged work of keeping the hypervisors up and running. |
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9 . |
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11 Efforts also coming from the community that sometimes take part |
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12 into the project, or in reverse, hosting providers contributing |
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13 to help community projects, either through funds or bug-fixing. |
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15 .IP "sdf.org " |
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16 Around since as early as 1987, the Super Dimension Fortress |
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17 describes itself as a public access supercomputing center. |
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18 An invitation to jump both feet into the UNIX culture featuring |
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19 games, email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace, |
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20 programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and more. |
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21 A different sense of community than the one offered by social |
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22 networks. |
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23 . |
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24 .IP "sdfeu.org " |
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25 Joint effort with the north Amercian sdf.org, the European |
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26 counterpart will have a better network latency for European, |
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27 Middle east, and African users. |
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29 .IP "grex.org " |
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30 Grex brings democracy to hosting, a concept little explored by |
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31 commercial hosting providers: open access, but also owned by |
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32 its members who can vote on what to plan next for Grex. |
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33 Also a good pretext to get around a good meal during the Grex |
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34 conferences. |
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36 .IP "openbsd.amsterdam " |
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37 A hosting provider running OpenBSD for its entire stack, |
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38 including the hypervisor itself: \fCvmm(4)\fR. It permits |
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39 its user to connect directly onto the hypervisor through |
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40 SSH and run commands such as \fCvmctl vm02 restart\fR. |
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41 . |
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42 .IP "blinkenshell.org " |
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43 Younger by a few years, this open shell project lets you |
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44 give Linux a try. Occasion to make someone discover the |
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45 world of command-line and programming through the editor |
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46 and compilers installed up there. |
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47 . |
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48 .IP "prgmr.com " |
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49 While keeping a commercial model, this Xen-based hosting |
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50 provider offers a command-line approach to hosting, and |
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51 consider the user as a respectable admin rather than a |
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52 supermarket customer. |
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