Blinkenshell - Free UNIX Shell Accounts!

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Welcome to Blinkenshell! This is a free UNIX shell provider. Here you can get your own personal shell account on a Linux server for free! The only requirements is that you actively participate in our community and follow the rules.

Blinkenshell is a mature shell provider, the service has been online since 2006 and there are several hundred members. We're still accepting new members, if you're interested in signing up for an account take a look at the Signup info.

Blinkenshell is built around an online community with friendly and helpful users. This is a great place to be if you are looking for somewhere to learn more about UNIX, programming, networking, security or meet other people with similar interests as yours. Many use their shell accounts to run an always-online IRC client (screen/detach irssi) or host a webpage for example. Read about some other common usage scenarios.

Keep in mind that the server is located in my basement and is not intended for any commercial use. It doesn't cost anything to use and does not provide any guaranteed uptime, availability, quality of service or any warranty. This is a hobby project!

Read more about the Blinkenshell project and its history.

If you have any questions or just want to talk to us, come on in and join the chat! IRC: #blinkenshell @ irc.blinkenshell.org Port 6697 SSL (irc://irc.blinkenshell.org:+6697/blinkenshell)

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Account Types

Services

• Secure remote login and file transfers via SSH and SFTP.

• 100/1000 MiB Disk quota (shared for home directory, website and mail)

• Session detach via Screen or tmux, so you can keep your programms running in the background while you're logged off.

• IRC access via irssi, weechat etc. Access to all major IRC networks (IPv4 and IPv6). Bots and bouncers are only allowed on supporter accounts.

• IM: bitlbee, centerim (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber), pidgin/finch (AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo), mcabber (Jabber), bti (twitter)
• Development environment: compilers (C, C++), interpreters (Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, TCL), editors (Emacs, nano, VIm), utilities (diff, Subversion, CVS, Bazaar, GIT)

• Info/Webhosting https://<username>.u.blinkenshell.org (PHP, CGI, custom .htaccess)

• SQL Databases via SQLite or MySQL (only on supporter accounts)

• E-Mail access via alpine or webmail, get your own email address (or forward) at blinkenshell: username(at)blinkenshell.org Webmail, SMTP and IMAPs access

• Games: MUDs and other text-based games

• Browse the web via text-based browsers such as links2 and elinks. Textbased FTP clients.
• Network diagnostics: ping, traceroute, dig, nslookup, whois, geoiplookup

• Integrate with your smartphone (AndroidApps)

Programs/software installed on Blinkenshell. Why would you need all this? Take a look at some common usage scenarios.

Server info

• CPU: Intel Xeon quad-core
• RAM: 32 GB ECC REG

• Connection: Static IPs, Reverse DNS, IPv6

• OS: Gentoo Linux on main SSH-server. Ubuntu, Debian, NexentaStor and OpenBSD for support services.

• Location: Stockholm, Sweden

• Stats

Contact

• IRC: #blinkenshell @ BlinkenIRC (Webchat)

• Support/Help: Support info

• Admin E-mail: independence at blinkenshell.org

More

• Info - Links to pages with more information about Blinkenshell

• IRC - Chat with us

• FAQ - Frequently asked questions and answers

• Links - Some external links

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