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

• At long last, we're accepting new member applications! See [http://hcoop.net/ our front page].

• TheHcoopLook: Help design our logo and web appearance scheme!

• OurOwnHostingFacility: It seems like the next stage in our existence is renting and staffing our own hosting facility. Use this page to help us plan for that.

Getting started

• NewMember

Technical information

Basic account usage

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

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

• AccountPrivileges: What your account can and can't do, and why

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

• 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

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

• VirtualHostConfiguration

• EmailConfiguration

• MailingListConfiguration

• MoinMoinConfiguration: Setting up your own wiki like this one

• UsingSsl: How to create SSL certificates

Non-technical administrative stuff

• [http://hcoop.net/board/ Secretary's official records and information site]

• HcoopBylaws

• MemberDues

• 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