Who we are
Rochester Geeks are a group of four individuals
originally from the Rochester NY area. We are self described geeks who
are heavily into technology. Our professional backgrounds include
Software Engineering and UNIX/Linux Systems Administration.
A brief history
Since early 2000 Greg Rowe had been hosting his
domain, therowes.net, on his own server. He was lucky enough to have a
free connection and static IP address. Sometime in early 2003 he
decided it was time to leave the situation that he was in. This meant
giving up free colocation. He had grown very accustomed to running
his own machine and did not want to give up that flexibility. He
consulted with friends and found three friends who were willing to
split the costs of operating a server with him. The four of us became
the Rochester Geeks.
What we do
We
maintain a colocated server. We host our own domains as well as the
domains of our friends and family. We split the cost of the server
between the four of us. We ask for a small donation from those who
host on our machine to help us defray the cost of the server. We are
not turning any sort of a profit.
What we do not do
We are
not a business. The business of web hosting is not lucrative.
Besides, we are geeks; not businessmen. We make no guarantees of
technical support or uptime. We do our best to provide a fantastic
service, and I think that we've done well so far. We each have regular
full time jobs and generally are not available during normal business
hours but we tend to be very response after business hours.
The services Rochester Geeks provide
Our current server is rented from Ev1 Servers. We're running the stable version of Debian GNU/Linux. We have a 100 Mb connection to the Internet.
- Full website hosting
- Apache
- CGI access with PHP, Perl, and many others
- MySQL database access
- Access to files via sftp
- Access to your web site access logs
- Full email hosting
- Unlimited email accounts
- Unlimited forwarded email accounts
- Spam filtering with Spamassassin
- Virus scanning with ClamAV
- Secure IMAP and POP3 access
- Secure webmail access with Squirrel Mail
- Self managed (add and remove email accounts via the web)
- Backup email server provided by Vital Webhosting
- Full DNS hosting
On our server you can run excellent software such as:
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