Welcome to phear.org!
Thanks to everyone working in the darkness for sharing their knowledge. Times have changed! We bought a flashlight!
History
phear.org is a group of friends crazy about computers and networking since the mid 90s. At that time, Internet started to become very popular and we were really excited about it; we spent many long nights at the university on old VT100 and later on X-Terminals.
Luckily, in 1999 we could register our domain ($100 or so!); we were one of the first privileged people who had broadband Internet access while most of the population has to concentrate on Dial up. We chose phear.org. The server was an old Pentium 166 with 2 9GB SCSI drives which ran until 2002 when we bought an new rack-mount server for €80! During the early 2000s we added another server where we started to do some Web hosting for non commercial purposes, mainly for associations and individuals. Luckily we were both working for the same company and were in charge of a great backbone build on fiber!
Unfortunately, this company went bankrupt and would like to thank cuckoo’s team which merged with phear.org to continue housing for these people. We had many hardware and connectivity problems so we tried as hard as we could to install new machines in order to make it more reliable and in parallel decided to pay for commercial server housing. At the moment, about half of the rent is paid by hosting commercial services and the other half by us.
phear.org members
Founders: kewl & rival.
Stars: disclosed at the moment as they did not give their authorizations.
Finally, if you find any mistakes anywhere on phear.org, we’d be glad if you could report it and will do our best to fix it! Thanks :)