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1. Public hosting cooperatives
L'Autre Net (French)
Cernio - Business converting to a cooperative
Crosswired (United Kingdom)
Fiasco (based in Israel, uses English)
GAIA Host Collective (succeeded by BeCooperative?)
Ouvaton (French, other languages supported)
trash.net (German only)
2. Groups primarily offering internet access
Chester County InterLink - of ESR fame
Greenbelt Internet Access Cooperative - Also offers basic hosting services. (dissolved in 2006)
HoosierNet - 501(c)(12) Bloomington Indiana internet/computer network service (ceased operations in 2006)
NCF, or Freenet, 1992 - 2nd of its kind. Also a community organization linking people in Ottawa.
PunkNet - former cooperative ISP, sort of transformed into a commercial hosting company? (apparently dissolved or renamed)
RAIN - old internet "charity" which offers internet access, basic hosting, and a variety of services (website offline as of 2021-10-24; domain still registered)
Ruby Ranch Internet Cooperative - 501(c)(12) cooperative DSL ILEC - about two dozen rural Coloradans with a DSLAM in a horse barn connected to Qwest's copper
3. Private hosting cooperatives
hosting-cooperative.com (domain expired as of 2021-10-24)
Project Colo (website offline as of 2021-10-24; domain still registered)
4. Public access UNIX systems
Arbornet - also claims to be the oldest public-access UNIX!
GREX - one of the oldest free shells out there
Xox.pl - Polish (website offline as of 2021-10-24; domain still registered)
Silence is Defeat (website offline as of 2021-10-24; domain still registered)
5. Other public access services
Online Policy Group - deals with issues related to equality and access online, also provides hosting services to minority groups. affiliated with CCCP
6. Hosting providers with somewhat non-traditional feelings
fosshost.org - free cloud hosting for free software projects
webarchitects.coop - "small and friendly, multi-stakeholder co-operative which has been providing ethical and green, web hosting, virtual servers and GNU/Linux sysadmin support services for over 20 years."
Koumbit -- hosting, web design and sysadmin services
7. Hosting providers FLOSS based
Black Cat Networks Ltd (website offline as of 2021-10-24; domain still registered)
8. Community Colocation
California Community Colocation Project (closed in Jan 2007; as of 2021-10-24, not listed as a tax-exempt organization by the IRS, although their website is still online)
DC Community Colocation Project (forming) (mailing list offline; no evidence of successful formation)
San Francisco Community Colocation Project (opened Dec 2006) (website offline as of 2021-10-24; domain still registered)