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

• FinancingIssues: Who is willing to pay how much, when, and for what

• PaymentPlanProposals: Ideas about payment plans to cover HCoop costs

• PaymentProcessing: Figure out how we should accept electronic payments.

• ColocationPlans: Plans for our next server set-up, designed to handle more users than can fit comfortably on a single main server.

• AdminPolicies: Draft set of formal guidelines governing the responsibilities of members tasked with administrative roles, technical and otherwise.

Getting started

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

• ProspectiveMemberFaq

• NewMember

Technical information

Basic account usage

• [https://members.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: Use this site section to log spam attacks against web sites, including MoinMoin and custom CGI programs hosted at HCoop. This information may be used in the future to track chronic web spammers in order to take site-wide blocking action if necessary.

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

• IrcChannel: Join our "chat" channel for 24/7 discussion.

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

• HcoopBylaws

• MemberDues

• BoardOfDirectors

• NamingConventions: What the right ways are to write HCoop's name and Internet addresses in different contexts

• IrcMeetings

• SevenPrinciples

• EnvironmentalPolicy

• GenderNeutralLanguage: Tips on how to write in a gender-neutral way for the HCoop wiki or in any other forum.

• OtherGroups who run services similar to us

• TheHcoopLook: web site visual design chatter

• ["T-Shirt"]: help design and plan the new HCoop T-shirt

• 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

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