Rochester Geeks

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: