Why?
tertial.org was born in January 2001 out of a frustration with ISP-provided services that did not provide a real service level to their customers. One member didn't want to have to rely on his university's facilities once he had graduated and another soon grew fed up with his ISP's MySQL server being down every other day. Combine this with a need for control and the ability to configure things as we needed, and the idea of co-locating a machine soon became very attractive.

Ten of us got together and pooled skills, hardware and money to put this machine on-line. The server went on-line in February 2001 and has been running with relatively few problems since. The admin team have managed to keep the box online and have been busy adding new facilities for users, as well as keeping the machine up to date with the latest software.

Since then, membership has jumped to around thirteen users, hosting a combined total of around 41 domains. We shift somewhere in the region of 2GB of traffic a month, mostly from webpages.

Current members of the project can be found on the members page. Currently we have no group projects in progress, although a number of personal projects are proceeding. These include a number of ideas for web-based roleplaying/strategy games, a Fantasy Formula One site and a site for information on cycling in the UK.

Aside from projects, the machine is used for hosting personal websites and domains and is used for IRC - several members can be found on undernet's #userfriendly channel.

Future
Currently we have no plans for the future. There have been no calls to upgrade the machine and our ISP are giving us a (mostly) reliable service. We may be looking to take on more members at some point, although for now things will probably stay as they are.

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