I would love this. I would also be interested in learning how to provide / helping to maintain this service.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All, > > > > I've just been toying around with offering local tech peeps a few free > > services that I could provide pretty easily. I wonder if these things > > would actually be welcomed by the tech community and worth my effort. > > > > Anyway, here's what I'm thinking... > > > > First, I'd like to offer a tiny vps (virtual private server) for free. > > We're not talking about anything you'd run your business on, but it > > would give people a place to play around. Because they'd be free, I'd > > keep the specs very modest, something like 1 CPU, 40G disks, 512MB RAM > > and a static IP (in a shared subnet). We'd offer Ubutnu LTS, CentOS > > 6.X and anything else the community wanted to help make base images > > for. There would be no support or guaranteed up-times. > > > > Next, I'd like to offer unlimited private (or public) git-based > > projects on a GitLab server (http://gitlab.org/gitlab-ce/). We would > > just limit the total disk space per user to 5G or something. I know > > there are a ton of options out there for hosting git projects, but > > most of the free stuff is for public projects. > > > > I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is it worth my (well, Izeni's) effort > > and expense? > > > > (Feel free to forward to any UT tech communities) > > > > > > Best, > > Gabe > > > > I think that would be great. I can think of several things that I could use > a small VPS for. Plus, if its free I'll take 2 :) > > Cheers, > Stephen > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
