[Polarhome] polarhome in not FREE any more

[Zoltan Arpadffy]

polarhome.com FEEs

polarhome.com learned from earlier experience and from 2000.10.10 changed
its user policy in order to improve service quality and stop malicious
activity from the member servers.

polarhome.com users can have one of these accounts with the following access
rights:

ftp and shell accounts:

host account with disk quota of 20Mb + 5Mb mail +databases
personal homepage http://www.polarhome.com/~username
Perl, PHP, Python, SSL etc. web environment
e-mail address username@polarhome.com
mail forwarding
spam black hole
IMAP and POP3 account
e-mail with WAP phone
MySQL database with web administartion (on request)
irc, irc, ftp and socks proxy, direct ftp access

JUST shell account:
telnet and ssh shell access
Napster client (nap 1.4.4) with DSL speed
Gnutella client
Public eggdrop bot server
crontab
C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, tcl work environment
network services as ping, netstat

ftp account
- is absolutely free
- usually usable about 3-5 minutes after registration.

shell account
- costs 10 local currency units per server that should be sent to
polarhome.com with the correctly filled application form.
- just regular, registered ftp account can be upgraded to shell accounts
- shell accounts are activated after received application forms (usually
3-6) days.

FAQ

Q:What is it mean "10 local currency units"?
A: polarhome.com is used by users all around the World and fixed price in
one currency could put quite lot of users in negative position, because for
ex: $10 does not have same value for US citizens and for Brazilians or
Romanians. In some countries people work whole month or even more for $10.
Therefore, everybody should pay 10 units of their own main local currency
as:
-10 USD for USA
-10 SEK for Sweden
-10 DEM for Germany
-10 HUF for Hungary
-... etc.
with this method system will be reachable worldwide under similar
conditions.

Q: What if there do not exist 10 unit bank note?
A:  For these countries admission fee will be the lowest paper bank note
(whatever it is)

Q: Does polarhome.com became a commercial site?
A: No, according the statistics there will not be significant any income
from admission fees, but users will have much higher respect to their shell
accounts... and anyway all income will be used for server upgrades and site
improvements.

Q: What do we achieve?
A: We achieve a more flexible system from users point of view:
-no denied hosts, networks
-user validation
-more stable system
-more services
-income for server upgrade
-... etc.

Q: I had a shell account at polarhome.com. What should I do?
A: Your earlier account have been transformed to ftp account. Otherwise, you
may choose among the following alternatives:
-continue to use as ftp user
-upgrade to shell account
-stop use polarhome.com access services

Regards,
Z