PLiG - Internet Sunshine

PLiG is a privately funded not-for-profit organisation, supporting the development of Internet related services and projects since 1996. Please don't contact us if you're looking for something to buy - we don't have anything to sell and we don't offer any commercial hosting.

Statistics (updated July 2002):

Primary Domain Name Service (DNS) for 203 domains
Secondary DNS for 297 domains
Primary mail service for 199 domains and hosts
144 Virtual Webhosts
112 local users & mail only accounts
Approximately 4.5TB of storage on the main PLiG machines, of which 2TB is dedicated to FTP and web mirrors

Some of the services we currently offer are:

ftp mirrors - among which ftp.uk.freebsd.org, ftp.uk.openbsd.org and many more
various web mirrors, including OpenBSD, KDE, qmail, ntop and FreeBSD
cvsup services for FreeBSD (as cvsup.uk.freebsd.org) and for Diablo
mailing lists
News peering of selected groups plus sound Usenet 2 peering, with reading available via NNTP or a web based newsreader
www.rfc.org.uk, a UK based RFC archive
we are members of Nominet UK and OpenSRS, allowing us to register both UK and International domain names for our members
a public IRCnet gateway at http://chat.ircnet.org/

We also provide hosting and support for a variety of projects such as:

ZA NiC, free za.org and za.net domain name registrations
FIGlet, a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
X Window Managers is the definitive place to find details about X Window Managers
Lynx is a text based browser for the World Wide Web.
UK and Australian Competitions and Slogans site
WISA Wimbledon FC Independent Supporters Association
OpenUsenet is primarily the home of the Diablo newsfeeding and newsreading software
freedb a free approach to cddbp
RubyPhoto is a program for creating image galleries for the web.