HCoop v1
Finally, concerned about legal issues and the lack of progress on that front, Adam announced a freeze on new membership applications. At the same time Nathan Kennedy, who had joined in December 2004, volunteered to handle the incorporation process, with the result that in February 2005 HCOOP, Inc. was organized in Pennsylvania as a nonprofit corporation. The first board of directors was elected and held meetings. A second server was then leased, and new members were free to join.
- Needs more on the role of various other members in helping set up hardware etc as well as prehistory.
/HcoopV1HardwareSpecs: Hardware specs for our systems at this time.
HCoop v2
It became apparent that Fyodor would no longer be enough to meet our long-term needs. We went through a period of deliberation about which colocation providers to choose.
/CurrentSystemGripes: List of gripes with Fyodor.
/ProspectiveHostsQuoteRequest: Draft of quote request sent to different providers.
/ColocationPlansServiceProviders: List of colo providers that we sent quote requests to.
/ColocationProvidersEvaluation: List of colo providers who responded in a timely manner to our quote requests.
/HardwareAppraisal: Hardware that we were considering at the time.
/HardwareDonations: Hardware donated to us by some of our members.
At some point around August 2006, we decided to choose Peer1. We began the setup phase (paying Peer1) in November 2006. NathanKennedy became our on-site guy, and set all of the hardware up. Our main machines were Deleuze and Mire.
After 15 or so months of heavy hacking, the admins built a solid setup based on AFS and Kerberos, which should allow for easy expansion in the future.
In November 2007, we finished making the MemberManual, and subsequently began the migration process from Fyodor to Deleuze and Mire.