This is a set of shared computer resources for a few friends and their friends' friends. All in all, about 30--40 people depend on these services. Then there are all the mailing list subscribers and all the people reading local users' blogs, et cetera, et cetera. It adds up to a lot of people.
The main hack.org server is currently known as "ecki". This is of course a nickname for Eckieckiftangphui. Ecki runs FreeBSD and many server programs. Apart from the main box there are also many other hosts in the Moby Hack Network, both under the hack.org zone and other domains.
Most users of the main server use it only for mail. Some users have the ability to update web pages. A small number of heavy users have shell accounts.
Please note that users are invite-only.
Disclaimer about the services.
The system can be said to trace its history back to a bulletin board system in the +46-650 area code in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s the BBS advanced to a public access Unix system in the +46-13 area code. The Unix system had a bulletin board first known as The Hack Machine and later as IBKOM.
We were a dial-up system until 1996 but users had UUCP access for mail from the early 1990s. The UUCP name was "closet" (lysator.liu.se!closet).
We got leased line IPv4 access in 1996 and registered the hack.org domain the same year. We got native IPv6 access in early 2008.
The machines and operating systems running the services have varied over time. Some landmarks from ancient times to now: Commodore PC40 (MS-DOS), Sun 3/60 (SunOS), Diab DS90/20 (DNIX), Sun 4/390 (SunOS), Digital Alpha XL266 (GNU/Linux), Sun SPARCstation 5 (OpenBSD), no-name Pentium 90 (FreeBSD), VIA C3 Mini-ITX (FreeBSD) and since early 2008 a Supermicro PDSMi+ with an Intel Core 2 Duo (FreeBSD).
During an emergency breakdown in 2001 the most important hack.org services ran on a laptop on MC's kitchen table!
The connections to the world have varied a lot. During the modem years, the speed varied from 2400 bit/s to 9600 bit/s. After the dial-up period, the speed went from 128 kbit/s to the current 100 Mbit/s.