From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 14 09:08:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA23190 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA23182 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:08:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from shellx.best.com (shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) with SMTP id JAA06607; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:02:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:02:33 -0800 (PST) From: HCI To: Martin Cracauer cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking a FreeBSD-aware ISP In-Reply-To: <199701141214.NAA10917@knight.cons.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk www.blueneptune.com is a FreeBSD powered ISP. They could certainly do the work. San Fransico Bay FreeBSD fans - use these guys they are in the south bay. They used to be San Jose Co-op. On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Martin Cracauer wrote: > [I hope this is not too off-topic, at least I'm seeking for a > FreeBSD-capable organization and I need to bring up free software > projects.] > > I need a machine for some of my free software projects located at some > reliable point in the internet (say: NOT Germany). > > I'm seeking for a provider who will put together a PC with plain > FreeBSD-2.2(beta) and connect it to the internet, so that I can set up > the machine for my use (CVS, maillists, GNATS, www/ftp). An old 486/66 > with 16MB RAM, 2 GB disk would be sufficient. > > Best way should be to charge a monthly sum for ISP services and the > hardware together (otherwise I'll had to buy the machine), plus some > sum for basic setup (about 1 hour for a FreeBSD-aware person). > > Interested parties should be able to bring the machine back up should > I screw up something, but I don't expect that to happen more than once > in several months. The expected data transfer rate is about 300-500 > MB/month. 56-64 Kbit/sec bandwidth is sufficient. > > Ability to charge Mastercard is a plus. Ability to provide 4 instead > of one IP address for the machine is a plus. I already own domain > names and nameservers. > > Please let me know if you know some organization that might be able to > provide this service and/or feel free to forward this mail. > > Thanks > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer > cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (batched, preferred for large mails) > Tel.: (daytime) +4940 41478712 (sometimes hacker's daytime :-) > Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 > Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany >