From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 14 11:26:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA01430 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from DNS.Lamb.net (root@DNS.Lamb.net [207.90.181.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA01425 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:26:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from PacBell.TelcoSucks.org (PacBell.TelcoSucks.org [207.90.181.5]) by DNS.Lamb.net (8.8.4/8.8.2) with SMTP id LAA11093; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:38:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970114112727.0072fd28@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net> X-Sender: ulf@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:27:28 -0800 To: Martin Cracauer , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: Ulf Zimmermann Subject: Re: Seeking a FreeBSD-aware ISP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Martin. I was going to offer (esp. for people from germany/europe) some colocation, where I would build the system for them. Standard plan was a P5-100, 32 MB ram, 1 GB SCSI, Ethernet, Rack Mount, UPS. This would be at a charge of $1500 for startup and then $250/month for 1GB/day. So this might be a little bit over powered for you. I just calculated an AMD 486DX4-100, 16MB, simple VGA, 850MB EIDE, Network card, case, keyboard. It would cost around $650 plus shipping. 300-400MB per month is nothing. I would offer you that for $75/month. This a special offer for you and FreeBSD related projects :). Regards, Ulf. At 01:14 PM 1/14/97 +0100, 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------- Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) 1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073