remops and cpunks: http://www.1and1.com are offering: 512 MB disk space ssh and ftp access pop, mail etc. 5GB/month free bandwidth cgi/php/mysql free for 3 years as an advertising ploy to get into small business / personal web posting. They use a computerized phone call back to prevent people being silly and registering thousands of accounts, so you have to give them your phone#. (And that works for US and Canadian numbers only). But they don't require a credit card (unless you start buying extras). btw They also have the cheapest domain registration I've seen so far at $6/year. You also don't have to transfer your domain to them in order to host there, you can just point your existing domain's DNS to them, and they also will optionally keep your existing MX in their DNS so your mail is handled however it was before. Well just thought remops and cpunks might find some interesting uses or it would be a bonus to people working on crypto / remailer coding, or internet service type stuff to have some serious hosting to work with or do dev work in. (They have gcc, pgp, ssh etc installed). They seem quite serious hosting-wise and I got a 12 hr turn around on a fix for a system /etc/csh.cshrc bug that was preventing me changing my shell to tcsh which is pretty impressive. (Most hosting shops wouldn't bother answering or would fob you off, or your query would not get anywhere near someone clue-full enough to understand never mind tweak and fix the minor problem). Their bandwidth is supposed to be pretty good too as they have 12Gbits connectivity. Claim to have been in business for 11 years. 3 years free seems pretty generous (most free offers are a few months or 1 year tops). The offer is available only until 31st Dec this year.

From what I could see from the two I did (one for someone else) based on serial number on account it looks like they might be signing up around 1000 accounts per day. So I could imagine they might pull the offer also if they got too much take up!

Have phun. Adam