Americas Social Forum
Location: Brecht Forum
Thursday, October 9
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Join together, in real time, with participants of the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala, for a simultaneous workshop on collaborative democracy and the Internet. This workshop is a unique opportunity for those of us in New York to attend the forum, interact directly with Latin American activists and organizers, and contribute to building a collaborative and democratic agenda on the Internet. Learn more!
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Ana Willem (USSF Tech 'Zine)
Sometimes our members need more than the basic benefits. For those members, we acquire, develop, maintain and offer various resources whose costs is shared only by members who use them.
For example, extraordinary bandwidth or storage requirements are met on a case by case basis. You may have to pay a bit more but you will get what you need.
A high volume list is usually one that mails over 10,000 emails per week or per session. Our experience tells us that email lists of this type require a special environment fine-tuned to very fast and robust email processing.
Members who think they may require that kind of environment should consult with us to make sure that's true. Additionally, we sometimes flag a member's email list and inform that member that the list is functioning at high volume. When that happens, we will move you to the high-volume email list server.
Organizations with several websites, a very high-traffic or complex site, or several types of services (like websites and on-line databases) may find it advantageous to have their own "server". Colocating a server -- renting space and Internet connections for your own server -- gives you the highest level of security, the greatest number of options and the most flexibility.
It also presents you with some issues: finding a secure and stable location with high-performance and reliable connections and making sure you have a competent, responsible person to manage the server.
If this describes your situation, we'll help you evaluate whether a colocated server is right for you and if it is, we have two programs that deal with the issues.
Simple Colocation
This is an option for organizations who have a system administrator on staff or on call.
You place a 1U server running Linux/Unix in our rack and we provide the connection, bandwidth and electricity to run it. We hard reboot your machine when that's needed.
We will provide you access to a back-up server; you install the back-up scripts and manage them.
We leave management, "fixes", upgrades, equipment repair or replacement and other management functions to you.
You supply the machine or pay for it if you want us to buy one for you.
Fee: $150 per month
Managed Colocation
This option is for organizations who don't have a system administrator or whose administrators may need the support of technologists more familiar with our systems and software.
You place a 1U server in our rack and we provide the connection, bandwidth and electricity to run it.
We also provide basic management services:
We will discuss your specific needs with you, review with you what kinds of software you may need and then install Debian Linux on your machine as well as any software available in the Debian stable repository that you need or request.
We will maintain and upgrade all those packages and take responsibility for system maintenance.
We will back up the data on your machine nightly to a remote server.
Sometimes people have very special software or maintenance duties that are not part of the Debian Linux repository or not part of routine system maintenance. If that's the case, we'll talk with you about those needs and then install or do what is needed for $100 an hour.
You supply the machine or pay for it if you want us to buy one for you.
Fee: $300 per month
Note: May First/People Link does not provide colocation of servers running the Windows Network System. We do, however, provide the transfer of your data to the Debian Linux Operating System and can explain why that's a good idea.
Say your have a lot of data you need to store and/or back-up and you want a very safe, realiable and cost-effective place in which to store it. We provide just what you need by offering remote storage and back-up.
Remote storage packages have a startup fee equal to one year of service.
Offsite backup - Automated, incremental backup of data from your organization to May First/People Link. All files will be mirrored and available for download via a web browser. In addition, files will be archived on a weekly and monthly basis. Currently only available for organizations running OS X or Linux file servers.
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