We distribute servers for interesting projects.

We decided to conduct an experiment and support young interesting projects by the fact that we are best able to provide servers. Aged, but still interesting, too, can take part. In short - this month we are ready to provide 5 Intel Xeon E3-1230 / 8GB DDR3 / 4x1TB SATA2 / 100Mbps Unmetered servers in DC EvoSwitch (Netherlands) to the most interesting ideas: 3 according to the voting community and 2 in its sole discretion. Read more - under the cut.



Both young projects and long-existing ones, both those planning commercialization and obviously non-commercial ones are invited to participate in the competition. But it is necessary to fulfill three conditions: a working prototype must be ready, the project must be of something useful to others, and also must have a goal and a clear development plan (and follow it).
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Dates and stages

1. Reception of applications begins with the publication of this post and ends on November 20 at 23:59 GMT.
2. On November 21, we will conduct a preliminary selection of applications and open a voting on Habré, which will last until 23:59 GMT on November 25.
3. On November 26, we will summarize and contact the authors of the projects, who will occupy the first three places in the rating by the results of the voting, as well as two more at our discretion, in order to clarify the necessary settings and provide access.

How to apply

You can submit an application in two ways - send it in the form of a comment to this post or to our e-mail: admin [Canis familiaris] ua-hosting.com.ua (in the subject field, please indicate: “Habrakonkurs”). In the application must specify:

• Project name;
• general idea and current state;
• what do you see the benefits of your project, what is its purpose;
• Whether the project is planned to be commercialized, and if so, how and in what time frame.

We promise that all applications will be considered, but we do not promise that everyone will get to the vote. By the way, the advantages of applications in the comments will be indirectly taken into account when summing up the results.

Additional terms

We will ask the winners of the competition to provide a monthly report in a free form on the progress of development, results achieved and immediate goals. We reserve the right to publish this report in whole or in part where we deem it necessary.

Initially, servers are provided for 3 months for potentially commercial projects and 6 for a priori non-commercial ones. After this period, it will be possible to understand and see in what form we will continue our cooperation. This does not mean that we will force everyone to pay, but, for example, to support projects that are already earning money for free is unlikely to agree. We also reserve the right to refuse to provide the server ahead of schedule in case of inappropriate (not corresponding to the primary application) use.

If the results of the pilot competition will be interesting, we plan to make it permanent and hold it once or twice a month. And we believe that together with you we will make the Internet a little more useful.