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Non-Profit Colocation?

Posted by Cliff on from the timely-idea dept.

dew asks: "I've just put together what might be the world's first non-profit focused on providing colocated Internet access for individuals, non-profits, and Open Source groups. We're called the California Community Colocation Project and we're part of a 501c3. We do not host any for-profit endeavors, personal or commercial. We've just opened our Palo Alto facilities and have multiple fiber drops to PAIX, where our upstream provider is heavily peered. I started this project to be as useful as possible to the non-profit and Open Source worlds: how would you best recommend I do that? Compile farms? A SourceForge mirror in case they go down?"

3 of 21 comments (clear)

  1. /. effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They posted this on Sunday instead of Monday because they're scared of the /. effect.
    Doesn't say much for their faith in their bandwidth and reliability.

  2. Idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only for non-profits yet you suggest for SourForge to be backed up or something? Thats like, "I'm gonna start a soup kitchen for homeless people, so where should I locate myself, right next to chase manhattan?"

  3. Location? by nadie · · Score: 0, Troll

    You might consider locating both your organization and it's infrastructure in a friendlier country so you don't get shut-down by your government. Lot's of non-profit projects and groups are involved in activities that are not legal in California.