Tigerden Facilities and Services

What is Tigerden.com

Tigerden is a small, private Internet Service Provider located in Dayton, Ohio USA. We are Dayton's oldest ISP, the domain being registered on 27 October 93, and coming online full-time in January of 1994.

Tigerden caters primarily to the worldwide furry community offering shell accounts, e-mail, USENET newsgroup access, World Wide Web pages, TinyFugue mud client, and typical unix system features.

We host TigerMUCK, a roleplaying, social interaction virtual reality world populated by furries.

We also assist the Essential Link to Vital Internet Services (E.L.V.I.S.) group which provides internet terminals and connections for conferences and other gatherings.

Tigerden's Hardware

The main server machine, tiger, is a Pentium 166 clone PC running the Linux operating system. It currently has 128 megs of ram, and about 16 gigabytes of hard disk storage consisting of one 9.7 and one 6.5 Gb Maxtor IDE drives. It has a 4 meg PCI S-3 Virge chipset video card feeding a 20-inch NEC multisync XL monitor. It has 4 16550 Serial UARTs for modem and mouse connections and a PCI ethernet card for connections to other machines on the in-house thin-wire ethernet network.
System backups are done periodially to 4mm DAT tapes on Hewlett Packard SCSI DAT drive.
The network link is currently a pair of Time Warner Business Class cable modem lines. Each line has 10 Megabit/second down and 1.5 Megabit/second up speeds.
Machine 'bengal', a Pentium-166 with 64 meg ram and 10.3 Gb disk, is operating as a secondary nameserver and a usenet news server based on 'inn'. We locally host newsgroups for our users, including specialized groups in the fur.* hiearchy. Machine 'siberian', a 486-33 with 32 meg ram and 1.5Gb hard disk, is operating as a secondary nameserver, backup news machine, and multiple terminal server.
Several other machines, running Linux, Solaris, or Irix, comprise the rest of the system. Other machines include Sun Sparcstation 10's and Sparcstation LX's and SGI 02's. These other machines are developmental machines, or remote workstations located in various places. Linux machines employ NFS to mount and share filesystems. These other machines are not always online, but come and go as needed.

Dialup Services

2 lines, 300bps - 33.6 kbps, MNP and LAPM capable. US Robotics network managed modem bank.
Shell accounts are the main access method. PPP and SLIP are supported.

Telnet and Remote Login Services

Account access for e-mail, news, mud client, and other services is primarily from remote telnet or rlogin. Secure Shell (SSH) is also supported. Accountholders also have the option of using the dialup modems if they are in the local calling area or can afford the long distance charges.

FTP Services

No anonymous FTP services are provided. FTP is available to accountholders for upload/download to their own accounts.

Email Services

Personal E-Mail - Accountholders have access to normal Internet e-mail using 'pine', 'elm' and other normal Unix mail user agents. We also offer web-based email access at www.tigermail.org.
Mailing Lists - Tigerden offers hosted mailing lists using the powerful and feature-rich GNU Mailman mailing list software suite. There's a web-based graphical interface for users, list administrators, and for acessing the list's archives. A custom list can be provided for any furry-related group.

World Wide Web Services

Web Hosting - Tigerden maintains a web server at http://www.tigerden.com to provide web pages for our accountholders. Selected organizations such as Wolf Park and several other are supported by use of virtual domains.
Personal Websites - Accountholders may construct web pages in their own directories which may be referenced from our Tigerden Users index. Individual web pages count against the user's disk space quota (currently 10 meg default).
Web Page Development/Hosting for Furry Artists, and Charitable, Furry-related Organizations -
- Furry Artist Links and Pages - As a service to the furry artist community, we offer web link pointers to existing ftp or web sites from our Furry Artists index page. For those artists having no web or ftp capability, we offer web page space to display sample works, commission information, and other data the artist desires. This is a free service. Due to limited space and net bandwidth, we can not offer wholesale archive space for an artist's collective works, but only a few samples of limited size to show the artist's style and subject range.
- Other Furry-related Organizations - We will consider developing and hosting web pages for furry- or animal-related organizations which lack other web page host capablility. We will work with you as best we can to determine if your proposed pages fit our theme and technical requirements.
Questions or comments about our web services should be directed to webmaster@tigerden.com.

Other Hosting Services

MUCK Hosting Services - We also provide hosting for online MUCK roleplaying sites which are furry-related. The server software runs under the control of a single user account for the 'owner' of the game. Size of the game's database and number of expected users can be a factor determining if we can provide host facilities.
Virtual Domain Hosting - If appropriate, we can host a virtual domain for hosted web or muck sites.
Domain Registration and Domain Name Service (DNS) - We also offer domain registration and Domain Name Service (DNS) service for virtual domains we host. We can also provide secondary DNS service for selected sites.

Convention Internet Den Services

Tigerden has provided multi-user Internet access for various furry conventions since 1994. Our original setup comprised multiple (up to 26) 'dumb' text-only user terminals plus up to four graphics terminals. Connections to the Internet was by dial-up modem, since "broadband" wasn't a term hotels and convention venues knew anything about. Today, of course, users expect a graphics browser for nearly all Internet activity, which makes as faster connection essential. In recent years, we've upgraded our service to provide up to 30 color graphics machines and a wireless broadband connection.

Account Information

Use policy - Users are expected to be mature and responsible net citizens. Use of a Tigerden account implies consent to the terms of our Acceptable Use Policy. Any violations or our policy should be reported to abuse@tigerden.com.

NEW ACCOUNTS ARE *NOT* AVIALABLE AT THIS TIME! Please don't ask. We may offer accounts once again at some future date as capacity allows. Accounts will likely cost about $10-$15 per month *IF* more are opened.

PUBLIC NOTICE: Use of Tigerden computer and network facilities for the purpose of transmitting unsolicited commercial advertising electronic mail to any user or account on or through Tigerden machines is expressly PROHIBITED.