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The CCCP was founded to assist the propagation of free speech on the
Internet. We empower those who are not making money off of their
speech to be heard. The impetus for founding CCCP came in the summer
of 2001, when founder David Weekly was frustrated at finding a number
of non-profit websites that were shutting down several of their pages
due to claims that they could not afford the bandwidth. Realizing the
vast quantities of fiber and infrastructure deployed 1998-2000 to
assist the bandwidth boom that never materialized, David decided to
figure out a way to bring this glut of cheap bandwidth to the
non-profit world.
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Posting to Craig's list,
David found several key volunteers who were not only excited about the
idea of a non-profit colocation facility, but willing to put their
time, money, and equipment into the project. David decided to move on
it.
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With an $1000 eBay bid, David purchased a yearlong 1U colocation
contract with Hurricane
Electric (HE) and put a server donated by David Ulevitch in the
slot. With this seed planted, several individuals indicated their
willingness to colocate their boxes with us. Shortly thereafter, CCCP
became an official project of the Online Policy
Group (OPG) as this was the most expedient way for us to get
official 501(c)(3) non-profit status.
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In mid-February of 2002, CCCP opened a month-to-month half-rack
contract with Via.net. The half-rack was full by the end of the
first month. After growing rapidly for around six months, CCCP decided
it was time for a higher-tiered operation, one that could provide 24/7
onsite for all of its clients and 24/7 remote hands. On a fateful
Saturday, a dozen CCCP volunteers showed up at Via.net's Palo Alto
location and trucked dozens of servers over to HE's Fremont
facilities.
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At HE, CCCP has been empowered to thrive. As of March 2004, CCCP now
occupies eight full racks of equipment hosting over 130 client servers,
eleven Cisco switches, and almost a dozen pieces of CCCP servers and
infrastructure. Cramming 30mbps onto the Net 24/7, CCCP is
serving webpages, pictures, email, and online chat for millions of
people a day. With dozens of volunteers and a core
operations team of eight, CCCP offers excellent internal service,
adding on to HE's already strong service and support.
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Donations have served us well as a revenue model, with an 100%
volunteer force - all donations go towards colocation. The model has
scaled well, too, with the average donation size increasing as we grow
and the incremental cost of housing a given server decreasing as we
engage quantities of scale. (We pay now literally 10 times less
for bandwidth than when we started!)
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CCCP is the largest operation of its kind in the world and is growing
incredibly quickly. Please donate now to
help us continue to serve the community!
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We provide free colocated Internet access to individuals and non-profits. If you represent a not-for-profit endeavor that seeks to have a web presence, an email account, or a rackmount server of your own, we'd love to help you! |
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You do not need to be an official non-profit organization to use our services, but you cannot be running any sort of a for-profit service. Fundraising, however, is okay. Join our mailing list if you're hosting with us or want to help out! If you're curious about hosting, send mail to questions@communitycolo.net with your questions! |
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