HCoop Wiki

This is the Internet Hosting Cooperative's space for maintaining documentation on how our services work. Everyone, including both members and non-members, is invited to create and edit appropriate pages.

If you are new to wikis, see the DefaultFrontPage.

News

• NewServersSetup

• MigrationTips

• NewFeatures

Getting started

• HCoop's [http://hcoop.net/ front page]

• ProspectiveMemberFaq

• MemberFaq

• NewMember

Technical information

Basic account usage

• [https://members2.hcoop.net/ The member portal]

• SshConfiguration: How to connect to our servers for shell access

• FtpConfiguration: How to connect to our servers for FTP access

• FirewallRules: What you can do over the network on our servers

• FileTransfer: How to get files created elsewhere onto our servers

• UserWebsites: The easiest way to host a web site with us

• UsingEmail

• UsingDatabases

• DynamicWebSites

• SystemAuthentication: Authentication mechanisms supported

• BackupServices

• UsingResourceLimits: What to do if your process dies when trying to fork or allocate memory

• JabberServer: How to get a Jabber account

• SpamAssassin: How to set up automated spam filtering for your HCoop email account

• WebSpam: Add ideas on how to defeat spam that defaces web pages to this wiki page, or add links to your web spam logs.

• CustomDaemons: How to run custom daemons.

• TipsAndTricks: Some tips that might make your life easier.

Configuring shared daemons

• DomainRegistration: How to get your own domain properly set up to use hcoop's servers

• DomainTool: An overview of our tool to let users configure how shared daemons handle their domains

• DnsConfiguration

• EmailConfiguration

• AfsClientConfiguration: Instructions on how to configure client machines to use AFS (May 16, 2007 - for beta testers only!)

• MailingListConfiguration

• MoinMoinConfiguration: Setting up your own wiki like this one

• UsingSsl: How to create SSL certificates

• VirtualHostConfiguration

Non-technical administrative stuff

• MemberDues

• ContactHcoop: Ways to get in touch.

• HcoopMarketing: publicity, t-shirts, and web design

• HcoopPolicies: our various policies

• HcoopGuidelines: for communicating, HCoop staff, and more

• HcoopStructure: co-op bylaws, board members, and other legal details about the cooperative

• IrcMeetings: view official meetings that are logged

• OtherGroups who run services similar to us

• CategoryOutdated

System administration

• InstalledSoftware: Information on packages installed and maintained by means other than Debian's apt

• InstallationLog: Our admins' progress on setting up this new server

• CategorySystemAdministration: Other bits of interest to our admins and other curious folk

  • PrincipalsForNonHumans: policy on kerberos+pts credentials which do not correspond to humans

• OpenProblems: Problems we're trying to solve to make our services more reliable

• KvmInfo: the kvm

• BackupInfo