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Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

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picofarad

it looks like the rough equivalent is $5/month autopay in "shell" but none of this says how much ram or CPU i can use. that's why i asked about "equivalent of a raspberry pi" which is roughly 1 Xeon core with ~1GB of ram and 8GB disk, depending on what service. the AWS equivalent is the 512MB lightsail instance or the defunct t1.micro.

maybe i'm too old, or have no use for a shell. The VPS does seem fairly priced though, so that's cool.

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Sincere Flatley

This article provides insightful details about shell accounts and their various features. It's great to see how versatile shell accounts can be, especially with applications that support tasks like running game servers or other background processes. I find it particularly exciting that such environments can support fun applications like Funny Shooter 2 , allowing for seamless gameplay while leveraging robust hosting and remote desktop functionalities.
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Nanook

@Sincere Flatley you are allowed background tasks and cron jobs. We will accommodate as far as we are able but there are physical and monetary constraints. Some of the shell servers are more robust than others so if your application is particularly demanding we might ask you to move it to one of the more capable servers. The shell servers range from 4 core / 8 thread up to 18 core 36 thread, so some are more suitable for some tasks than others.
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Nanook

@gentoobro We started as a single line BBS in 1982, became a unix based timeshare service in 1985, and then when the first public CIX in stockton was formed in 1992, we ordered Sprint T1's and went online and started providing Internet services. When we first started providing Unix services it was using Microsoft Xenix on a MC68000 machine, in 1991 I purchased a Sun 3/180, and over the course of the next few years upgraded to a 3/280, then 4/280, then got a second Sun 4/330, then added two 4/670MP with quad 40Mhz SPARC CPUs, then to Sun SS-10, we took our Ross hypersparc modules from the power hungery 4/670MP and stuck them in much more power efficient SS-10s, then we upgraded to Ross 125Mhz Quad CPUs, then when the Linux .98 kernel came out we started experimenting with Linux and we tried Linux on Sparc and found it far out performed the SunOS native to the machines so we converted all of our machines except for one to Linux. We started experimenting with 386 machines when they became available and found Mhz for Mhz the SPARC got about 3x as much work done and initially the 25Mhz bus of the early Intel machines limited them to tasks that were not I/O intensive. Also the early Intel machines tended to handle task switching rather poorly so were best suited to tasks that didn't involved a lot of interrupts or thread. But the cost was so much cheaper, we could put together a PC for under $2,000 where as the Sun Sparc CPU modules were $20k a pop and it required two of them for a four CPU machine. So as Intel performance improved we gradually moved more and more things over and finally retired the very last Sparc machine just a few years ago. So yes we were an ISP on 1992 and I believe we were the eight to get connected to the Stockton CIX providing public services and I believe all of those prior to us have either changed hands or folded.
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