Services

A group of us have been working on various internet based projects and services since the late 90's. Part of this involves setting up and maintaining servers and the various software that needs to run on them to support the kinds of work we're involved in.

We document all the procedures we need to set up and run these various aspects which allows us to replicate or share them more easily. We only use freely available, community developed open source software in our system, and the procedures we've developed to use them are also freely available.

We can assist you in setting up your own server for hosting your wiki, web applications and email etc, but the entry level for a VPS (virtual private server) of reasonable resource is about US$40/month and setup time $250. Standard web hosting starts very cheap, but has the disadvantage of restricting access to what you can install or configure, which increases software setup time.

We're happy to host projects on our servers if they share a lot in common with our own system and way of thought, such as being heavily oriented toward wiki and other bottom-up ideals. Our production server is currently with vpslink.com on the LINK5 plan, but our system is very independent and we can easily change provider if their service becomes unsatisfactory like our last one (a godaddy.com VPS).

As your operation grows you can easily move it to your own server since nothing we use is proprietary and we have documented procedures in place to make replication and migration simple.