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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.
Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Misskey, Yacy, and Nextcloud.
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Posted on May 15, 2021
All Debian based kernels were upgraded to 5.12.4.
This took an hour and 15 minutes to complete on the physical server hosting the web server because the iomemory drivers did not want to compile under 5.12.4. After much pulling of hair I found that it was a libc6 version mismatch between the machine that I installed the kernel on and the one I built it on. The DKMS module for iomemory required this.
Mail has been upgraded to ubuntu 21.04. Most of the servers here are on long term releases but dovecot was barely usable on the 20.04 release prompting a rapid upgrade to a short-term intermediate release.
The iomemory card is a special type of flash which is capable of atomic writes straight to flash used with mariadb 10.5 to handle an extremely heavy transaction rate. On disks the database would only handle about 400 TPS but on this flash drive it has handled over 10,000/s on spikes. This makes friendica and even more so hubzilla which is more resource intensive, function smoothly and rapidly post incoming messages.
New tickless linux kernels are available for Debian based systems at
eskimo.com/kernel 5.10, 5.11, and 5.12, there are two builds for each, one a "client" build is fully preemptive and has a 1000HZ clock rate, the other is the "server" build and it is non-preemptive and 100HZ clock rate. The client is optimized for as low of latency as possible while the server is optimized for maximum throughput, get as much real work done as possible.
There are three .deb files there for each, download all of them then install with dpkg -i *.deb.
Thank you for using friendica.eskimo.com/ and hubzilla.eskimo.com/. We are here to provide an outlet that is opposite mainstream cancel culture and offers freedom of speech. If you are easily offended by honest open expression then his probably is not the place for you.
