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

• DomtoolTwo: The next generation configuration management tool for HCoop

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

• PaymentPlanProposals: Ideas about payment plans to cover HCoop costs

• 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

• MemberFaq

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

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

• DeveloperGuidelines for admins developing custom programs/scripts for HCoop

• 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