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About TuxFamily.org

TuxFamily is a non-profit organization that provide free services for projects and contents dealing with the free software philosophy (free as in free speech, not as in free beer). Any project licenced with a libre licence can be accepted, for example GPL, BSD, CC-BY-SA, Art Libre, ...

Here since 1999 (oh!, already ?), TuxFamily tries to provide a good and reliable service to promote the free software community and to give a visible place to each project. The hosting is free and we don't add banners or pop-ups to the hosted websites. You don't even have to advertise for TuxFamily! If you need it, just have it ! You can also use your own domain name if you have one.

TuxFamily hosting facilities are running VHFFS, which is a sub project of TuxFamily that allows to manage a massive virtual hosting platform.

Services for hosted people

This is the service you can get if you subscribe on TuxFamily. Of course, you need to have an open-source related project to get those services.

Web hosting (PHP4 and PHP5 are supported)
MySQL and PostgreSQL databases hosting
CVS repositories
Subversion repositories
GIT repositories
Mailing-lists
Handle of your domain (DNS hosting)
Popboxes and mail-forward for your domain
Download area of 1 GB, can be increased if you need more space
Quota of 100 MB for all groups, not including download area, can be increased if you need more space
Handling of your data through FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), SSH and SFTP

Right now, 2492 users and 1968 projects trust TuxFamily.org free hosting services.

Additional services, for everybody

The games : games.tuxfamily.net

TuxFamily.org has a games services, called games.tuxfamily.net. It's a meeting point for people who play free games on the Internet. All well-known free games are available, you can have some statistics on the main page.

IRC server : irc.tuxfamily.org

TuxFamily.org provides a free irc-server (irc.tuxfamily.org). You can use it for your projects if you want.

NTP server : ntp.tuxfamily.net

We provide a free ntp server. You can use it for personal stuff, there is no restriction for the use of this service.

TuxFamily's staff

The staff is composed of administrators and moderators. We are all voluntaries.

Administrators

They maintain all hosting services, they develop and provide new services if needed, and decide about the TuxFamily communication, position and future.

Sylvain Rochet aka gradator

Sylvain joined TuxFamily in 2004, he is currently the chairman of the TuxFamily.org organization and still the main system administrator.
He manages the TuxFamily staff, maintains the services night and day, and answers to a lot of the requests sent by our users.

Florent Bayle aka florent

Florent is currently an administrator of the hosting system.
He is a member of the administration committee and takes part in decisions.
He joined TuxFamily in 2005 and still does technical tasks every day on the platform.

Samuel Lesueur aka crafty

Samuel joined the TuxFamily crew in October 2006. Member of the administration committee and administrator of the hosting system, he attends to keep it up and running with the other administrators. Samuel is currently the vice-president of the TuxFamily.org association.