Servers.coop @serverscoop@sunbeam.city

thanks again to @mirsal for patiently sprinkling their network wisdom on us, and solving the last issue holding up our internal test.servers.coop instance.

expect to see some exciting software progress soon, now that we have a solid test environment.

–@3wc

A #ServersCoop Crowd-funder Approaches!

We'll be launching a #CrowdFunding campaign soon, via #OpenCollective, to make sure we can cover costs to get our VPS hosting going.

If you'd be interested in contributing to this fundraising drive, would you potentially want:

For #ServersCoop's own VPS hosting, running on donated hardware in Ashton, we're shooting for "ethical and cheap". What do you think of this pricing?

Micro - 0.5GB RAM, 1 CPU - £5/month

Tiny - 1GB RAM, 1 CPU - £7.50/month

Small - 2GB RAM, 2 CPU - £16.50/month

Medium - 4GB RAM, 3 CPU - £35/month

Large - 8GB RAM, 4 CPU - £75/month

(we're considering allocating 25GB disk to all servers to start with, storage pricing beyond that to be decided)

–3wc

amazing meeting today – thanks again to the community members and the other #ServersCoop coalition folks who joined.

6 people in 5 countries 🤯 The Servers Dot Coop International 💪

we're going to speak again next week to try and finalise (and maybe launch? 🤞) our crowdfunder. Stay tuned!

–3wc

#ServersCoop tech update

We've got another temporary rented dedicated server to use for development and testing, to be able to keep our https://yolo.servers.coop service more stable. This should speed up our hacking (thanks again to Animorph Co-op for the development help!) on Capsul-Flask, and our other tech infrastructure.

We're looking to move everything to our own hardware, as soon as it's set up, but it's interesting doing this safari of commercial hosting providers in the mean-time.

– 3wc

a bit about the #ServersCoop tech stack

Our current plan is to use Cyberia's capsul-flask, which is a web interface for the well-tested libvirtd / KVM stack https://git.cyberia.club/cyberia/capsul-flask

capsul-flask is simple enough for humans to hack on, and handles the whole process from "user buying hosting credits" to "self-managing virtual servers". It's been powering https://capsul.org for a while, and also our own pre-alpha service on https://yolo.servers.coop

We also looked into OpenNebula, which has a lot more features, but there's a big gap where a payments / billing system needs to be.

What tech would you like to see in the Servers.coop platform? Do you have experience running virtual servers for your community which you'd like to share? Reply here, send us a DM, or join our #serverscoop-tech Matrix channel 🤙 https://matrix.to/#/#serverscoop-tech:autonomic.zone

#CapsulFlask #LibreSoftware #FreeSoftware

#introductions

This is Servers.coop – we're making a recipe to set up a community server provider, and cooking up our own dog-food by offering Virtual Private Server space.

We'll be starting out on donated hardware, powered by renewable energy, in Ashton-under-Lyme in the UK.

We'll be launching a crowdfunding campaign shortly to make sure costs are covered for the first year – follow us on here, join our Matrix space https://matrix.to/#/!bDeUsKuqTQwBjBEAuj:autonomic.zone?via=autonomic.zone&via=matrix.org&via=gottsnack.net , or look out for details of our upcoming e-mail list.

#ServersCoop #Hosting #Servers

(PS thanks to Sunbeam.city for hosting us on here)