UNIX Shell Accounts

Pricing/Info

Dialup Shell account: $22.50/month. Includes 400 hours (that's about 10 hours a day every day of the month). If you use more than 400 hours, there's a small charge of $.20/hour for that extra time. Note that each login accumulates time independantly.

Telnet Shell account: half-price (i.e., $11.25/month). Access the account via telnet or ssh only. No hour limit (but see caveats below.) Note that a Telnet Shell account must be specifically designated as such to receive this rate.

Web Space (Home Page): With a Shell account, you can have a standard web service with up to 20 MB of disk storage and up to 1000 MB (1 gigabyte) of data transferred each month.

Trial Period: Try out your Shell account for up to two weeks. If you do not want to keep the account, just call us up and cancel within the two-week period. If you do decide to keep the account, simply don't cancel within the first two weeks.

Discounts: You may be eligible for one of our discounts for a shell account.

Email filtering: If you wish to use procmail to filter your incoming mail, have at it. We also offer our own filter language that we encourage you to try. (see the mvmf page for a glimpse.)

Caveats: Excessive resource consumption is discouraged, as are bots. If we observe long idle times, background program activity while you aren't logged in, runaway procmail or other programs, we will do what we need to stop them. This is for everyone's benefit.

Also, we make no representation about OS versions, software packages, or software versions installed on the shell server(s).

A $25 non-refundable payment is due within 2 weeks of the account's creation. The payment, plus an additional $5, will be credited to your account against future charges. Thus your initial $25 payment turns into a $30 non-refundable credit.

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