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* [[Mail|Mail]]
* [[Mail|Mail]]
* [[Shell Accounts|Shell Accounts]]
* [[Shell Accounts|Shell Accounts]]
* [[DNS|DNS / Domains]] on [[dns.fysh.org]]
* [[News|Usenet / NetNews]]
* [[News|Usenet / NetNews]]
* [[FTP|FTP]]
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Note that the following services are now on separate machines:
Note that the following services are now on separate machines:


* [[DNS|DNS / Domains]] on [[dns.fysh.org]]
* [[Web|Web Services]] on [[www.fysh.org]]
* [[Web|Web Services]] on [[www.fysh.org]]



Revision as of 16:07, 6 March 2008

NB: All the information provided here-in about the fysh.org services is made available on a best-effort basis. If you're in in doubt as to if the information provided here is up to date please check the 'last modified' entry at the bottom of, or the History link at the top of, the page.

The Fysh Server Called Bowl

bowl.fysh.org is currently a dedicated machine rented from and hosted by [UK2]. This is paid for via subscriptions charged to the principal users of the machine. Any queries about payments, or obtaining an account, should be directed to Mike Ashton.

The machine generally runs the current Stable version of the [Debian] distribution of [Linux]. The majority of the software installed on it is that which is directly supported by Debian, as this makes day-to-day administration and keeping things up to date very easy. We will, however, install software by hand if sufficient need is demonstrated. Our aim is to offer a stable service first and foremost, so don't necessarily expect cutting-edge versions of software.

Between bowl.fysh.org, www.fysh.org and dns.fysh.org we provide a wide range of services, ranging from email and web pages, through hosting of domains to the more esoteric such as [TeamSpeak] servers.

If you have a problem with, or a query about, any of the services on fysh.org, or would like to request an additional service, please send email to The Fyshy Admin.

Current Supported Services:

Note that the following services are now on separate machines:

History

Initially fysh.org was intended to be primarily for the benefit of certain graduates from The University of Warwick's Department of Computer Science who were just some of the self-proclaimed Fysh. Indeed it was initially hosted, as the server crucigera.fysh.org, in the office of a friendly member of Warwick DCS staff. Since then it's been hosted for free on various DSL lines (even before those were offered publically in the UK) and at the premises of a few companies with which one of the Fyshy Admin had associations at the time before finally settling down as a paid-for dedicated server rented from UK2.net.

bowl.fysh.org took over from crucigera.fysh.org in June 2001 after repeated hardware problems with the latter. The main server kept that name through another hardware change or two, including the move to the current rented machine from UK2.net (where the hard disks have had to be moved to fresh hardware at least once).