I run this little system, mostly for the benefit of myself. I'm happy to provide services to all friends. I can handle a domain for you if you want.
This is me:
Joakim Arfvidsson
Riddaregatan 83
352 36 Växjö
Sweden
+46 733 610361
+46 8 5999 6000
My first name at this host is my email address
Personal home page at http://arfvidsson.com/~joakim
Time of me and other people. Typically published automatically through WebDAV, which has separate access rights handling. So if you want to join the time publishers, drop an email.
Most new accounts have mail activated, but out of laziness I might skip some, since most people don't use it. If you're interested in a great mail server, let me know and I'll fire you up.
POP and IMAP are supported. SSL is required. To not have an annoying warning about an untrusted certificate, you need to install my root certificate. You should only do this if you trust me, and it's very simple.
Mac: Add it to your trusted root certificates by opening it and when Keychain Manager starts, select "x509 Anchors".
Windows: Go down the alley of horror. Make a right at the second blue screen.
There is also SMTP, both for local delivery and for relaying. SSL is required. There is a port forward on 2025, for when your ISP blocks port 25 outgoing. The SMTP server will accept emails up to 30 MB. If somebody wants to send you one though, they might have to choose arfvidsson.com as the server for their outgoing mail so that it's delivered directly. Otherwise, their server for outgoing mail would typically refuse to relay anything above 10 MB. I would set that limit higher if it wasn't for a quirk in the email software.
Quota is typically arbitrarily set at 2 GB. I do think it's reasonable to throw away mails with attachments >5 MB, and wouldn't mind if you did that. If you need more space, let me know.
There is WebMail at https://arfvidsson.com/WebMail.
Lab crew; have Subversion installed (it is at Elektro's computers) and perform
svn co svn+ssh://<user>@arfvidsson.com/DataBases/lab/<class>
You will be prompted for your password.
You want to look at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ for more info on Subversion. You will want to use svn up and svn ci in particular.
All accounts have a quota set, to prevent any app from crashing the computer by filling the boot/user/swap volume. This is another quota than the mail quota. Just let me know if you need anything else. To not fill up backups unnecessarily, please note this:
If you have a large file that you worry about, then by all means let it roll with the backups.
And one more important thing. UNIX permissions suck, and Mac OS X has some really lax defaults. Did you realize that if you create a new folder in your home, it is by default readable by world? This is why I made a script that resets the permissions of all home folders every night. It locks up all folders but the Sites and Public ones, which are set to the Mac OS X default style. The script does not traverse deeper than the first level of the home directory.
To access your storage, you can use the following protocols:
This server will almost always be up. All user accounts are located on a RAID-mirrored volume and backed up nightly to a differently located server, cube.arfvidsson.com. Backups are stored for 60 days. Cube also acts as a backup mail handler. I am myself using this host as my primary email server, just to let you know that I have plenty incentive for working out any problems quickly.
You probably already know how to use somebody else's internet connection responsible. Bandwidth is plentiful, but using a p2p app in a way that disrupts other stuff is not appreciated. Specifically, if you're pulling some torrents, don't overdo the uploading by too much. Breaking even and then some is of course okay, and recommended.