Keeping track of the massive menu of offerings, and subscriptions

menu of SDF offerings

Service	available at membership level			further action required
	user	ARPA	MetaARPA	self-service ¹⁾ (log in to maint)	email ²⁾ membership	prepay for the desired timespan
email at shell	✔	✔	✔
webmail	✔³⁾	✔	✔
textmode games and coreutils	✔	✔	✔
bboard, com, local irc	✔	✔	✔
interactive tutorials and bootcamps on exotic operating systems (TWENEX, Plan9)	✔	✔	✔
USENET access	✔⁴⁾	✔	✔
tiny tiny RSS			✔		✔
privacy-focused interface to reddit	✔⁵⁾	✔	✔
SDF Chatter – A Lemmy instance ⁶⁾	✔	✔	✔
serving gopher content	✔	✔	✔	✔
serving gemini content	✔	✔	✔	✔
serving static html	✔	✔	✔
choose a vanity domain other than freeshell.org		✔	✔	✔
register and host arbitrary domain name		✔⁷⁾	✔⁸⁾	✔		✔
manage mailing lists		✔⁹⁾	✔¹⁰⁾	✔		✔
Mastodon ^{mastodon.sdf.org}	✔	✔	✔
Mastodon ¹¹⁾ ¹²⁾ ^{social.sdf.org}	✔	✔	✔		✔¹³⁾ ^{with SDF email address}
private Minecraft server ¹⁴⁾ ¹⁵⁾ ^{or request an account on bboard → MINECRAFT}	✔	✔	✔	✔¹⁶⁾ ^{with Java™ profile username}
peertube video hosting ¹⁷⁾		✔	✔	✔
pixelfed image hosting	✔	✔	✔
DJ a show on ANONRADIO	✔	✔	✔		✔
Jabber/XMPP	✔	✔	✔	✔
Matrix chat		✔	✔		✔
URL shortening service	✔	✔	✔		✔
[Service]	user	ARPA	MetaARPA	self-service ¹⁸⁾ (log in to maint)	email ¹⁹⁾ membership	prepay for the desired timespan
compiler toolchains and interpreters (gcc, elisp, perl, python, …)		✔	✔
CGI using shell, awk, sed	✔²⁰⁾	✔	✔
CGI using php, perl, python, ruby		✔	✔
VOIP (incoming from anywhere, outgoing within the SDF switchboard)		✔	✔	✔
VOIP (outgoing to the global PSTN, direct inward dialing)		✔²¹⁾	✔²²⁾	✔		✔
UUCP mail		✔	✔		✔
NextCloud storage space			✔		✔
Gitea account			✔		✔
persistent background processes (tmux, screen)			✔
dedicated port for small-footprint services			✔
ssh tunnel/forwarding			✔
ability to use mx.sdf.org as a remote SMTP server		✔²³⁾	✔
permissions to install software and edit tutorials/FAQ			✔
permission to edit this wiki		✔	✔		✔
access to private arpa servers		✔	✔
access to beastie, iceland, sverige			✔
access to the MetaArray			✔
virtual private server			✔²⁴⁾			✔
Shared Plan 9 server – Boot Camp	✔	✔	✔		✔²⁵⁾
SDF Image Gallery	✔	✔	✔	✔
whoogle search	✔	✔	✔
SDF's MOTD.ORG Message Of The Day – …for UNIX users	✔	✔	✔		✔²⁶⁾
The sdf.org elearn Course Server – An Online Classroom for Electronic Learning	✔	✔	✔		✔²⁷⁾
Jitsi Meet – Secure and high quality meetings	✔	✔	✔
[Service]	user	ARPA	MetaARPA	self-service ²⁸⁾ (log in to maint)	email ²⁹⁾ membership	prepay for the desired timespan

Tip:

Search the SDF wiki for tutorials that contain a mentioned subscription ³⁰⁾ keyword.

For use by existing ARPA members ³¹⁾ ³²⁾	Support SDF through recurring donations and memberships (html; annual subscriptions, including MetaARPA, VPN, VPS, VHOST, VoIP, MOTD.ORG, DBA DataBase membership, TWEAK Disk Array Storage Fund, NeinPlan! Support the Plan9 Server, Support SDF's efforts in the fediverse (Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, Matrix, lemmy, teddit, et cetera))
Not a Blue Check Mark Club ³³⁾	Support SDF through recurring donations (html; Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, Matrix, Lemmy, GITea, tt-rss and teddit)

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Use the service form email, when a Service ✔ form email footnote is in this column.

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after account validation

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After the user account validation.

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recurring payments above and beyond the baseline for that tier

¹¹⁾

A private, SDFer only, instance.

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Decentralization and the Fediverse.

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form email

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The SDF Minecraft Player field accepts letters and numbers only‚ no punctuation or special characters.

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A low line profile username can use bboard; Avoid the Service form email if it's not working.

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New user priority is to MetaARPA members due to space limitations.

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Recurring payments above and beyond the baseline for the ARPA tier.

³¹⁾

Type ‘arpa’ at the SDF shell ($ arpa) for details.

³²⁾

UNIX Shell Account.

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SDF Fan, Supporter, Patron, or Saint.