Welcome to polarhome.com.

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IP address: 23.22.212.158

polarhome.com is non commercial, educational effort for popularization of shell enabled operating systems and Internet services, offering shell accounts, mail and other online services on all available systems (currently on Linux, OpenVMS, Solaris, OpenIndiana, AIX, QNX, IRIX, HP-UX, Tru64, SCO OpenUnix, UnixWare, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly/BSD, MirBSD, Ultrix and OPENSTEP ). ...by time polarhome.com became a demo site for Linux power and other Unix like systems popularization; symbol for online freedom, speech, feelings, activities and multiplatform open source development. Note: this site is continously under construction and running on slow lines and low capacity servers that have been retired, therefore as a non commercial site user/visitor, nobody should have too high expectations in any meaning of the word. Even if polarhome.com does all to provide services on professional level, users should not expect more than "AS-IS". polarhome.com is a distibuted site, but more than 90% of polarhome realm is located in Stockholm, Sweden. Who can use the system? This is an absolutely free and open system - open for everybody. There are just 3 rules: Have full respect to other users (they want to feel themselves free as well) Nobody can be destructive in any sense of the word. Knowledge, optimism and love is must (there is no tolerance for decadence) ...so if you feel that you can live with these rules, you are absolutely welcome. Who can not use this system? (these users are not welcome at all) - denied hosts - denied users What this system can not offer? - professional ISP service quality - host for huge sites - DoS, SYN attack base - host for remote attacks - vhost and fake identity - mail relay host, spam source - host for SETI@home and such CPU eating projects - mp3 and other multimedia media file distribution - media broadcast services

Where are you from? Europe North America South America Australia Africa Asia Other [results][old polls] Web polarhome.com

What can this system offer?

- Linux, Solaris, OpenVMS, QNX - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, IRIX - AIX, HP-UX and many more hosts - Anonymous FTP - Private FTP - Personal home page - Email @polarhome.com - Spam "black hole" - POP3/IMAP client - IMP based WebMail

- 200Mb free disk space - 20Mb for mail and database - POP3 and IMAP account - Spam/Virus free e-mail - Perl, PHP, CGI web environment - Kerberized local hosts - Useful network queries - Lot of documentation - Official mirrors - Culture of net usage

- Mailing lists - CVS mirrors - IRC server - IRC proxy, bouncer - IPv6 network environment - IPv6 vhosts - MySQL databases - Support for development - No forced advertising

What are the benefits?
polarhome.com users enjoy benefits from other organizations that are not necessarily related to polarhome services, but they appreciate polarhome's effort and input to open source community by providing their products to polarhome users.

• polarhome users can use MindTerm - AppGate's excellent Java client for SSH and Telnet.
• polarhome users may use free (without donation) The Tube - Trilight Zone's Secure SSH Tunneling Tool.
• polarhome users may get free thawte Personal E-mail Certificate certification

Where can you ask questions, report problems?
If you have any problem or question, please try to find answer in polarhome FAQ.
If FAQ fails, ask some moderator at polarhome community forum.
Other questions, opinion or suggestion please, send to support@polarhome.com or fax to +1 772 325 8221 (eFax account).
Report service abuse to abuse@polarhome.com or through the abuse form.
Please, always quote username and polarhome hostname or URL.

How much does it cost?
polarhome provides services for FREE - except shell and CGI access. It costs a symbolic 10 local currency units per username, per host... but at least 2 USD value in local currency (when 10 local currency units value is less than 2 USD).
It sounds strange, but the principle is very simple, intentionally created to suite to everybody but avoid abuse in the same time. Please note: it is symbolic, one time fee.
Please, read carefuly the shell policy.

How to access?
Use gateway server gate.polarhome.com to access servers in polarhome realm. You can find detailed description at port list.

How can you help to keep this system alive?
You can contribute in many different ways... read more about


polarhome.com is a community driven project. Therefore, everything is up to you.

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