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Project 10U – (Neighborhood) Community Cloud Pitch

Part 1: The Pitch

In February 2025, I moved into a half rack with 20U of capacity in a closed/private and secured location in Melbourne Australia.

After installing all of my personal hardware, including routers, switches, and servers – I found myself using 6U of my total available rack, or around 33%, and this is everything I’ll need for at least the next 24 months to host all of my […]

https://shlee.fedipress.au/2025/project-10u-neighborhood-community-cloud-pitch/

Project 10U – (Neighborhood) Community Cloud Pitch

Part 1: The Pitch In February 2025, I moved into a half rack with 20U of capacity in a closed/private and secured location in Melbourne Australia. After installing all of my personal hardware, including routers, switches, and servers - I found myself using 6U of my total available rack, or [...]

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abrasive May 19

@shlee What a worthy project!!

I wonder if it would be worth talking to people who have done related work in the past? When I was young I benefited greatly from an account on bur.st, a Perth-based but Oz-wide "community ISP" that provided email, web hosting, and a Unix shell to all comers. They made it 1998-2012 before running out of money. I don't know if anyone here knows any of their committee or admin people? https://web.archive.org/web/20100305071644/http://bur.st/about.html

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@shlee I guess my biggest concern is how much time and energy moderating the community is going to take - I feel like if you have to be on the lookout for everything from spam campaigns to malware hosting to cryptominers you might end up with some quickly burned out admins. I guess things have become even more complicated since 2012...