Alongside its own projects, vpsFree.cz also tries to support useful, worthwhile projects run by others. This time, we have supported volunteer firefighters.
Some time ago, Jiří Blažek approached us with the idea of hosting a new portal for volunteer firefighters at vpsFree.cz.
As part of my bachelor's thesis, I created an e-learning portal for volunteer firefighters, which currently runs on a server at the school where I study. I also recently helped fix some problems with the association's official website and am involved in several other emerging IT activities. I do this work for the association as a volunteer. Our work together suggested that it would make sense to bring the association's websites (including regional ones, for example) under one administration, ideally on a VPS.
He asked whether we could support the project in some way. He very quickly received a positive response and space on our hardware. "I think supporting volunteer firefighters goes without saying. It makes me happy to see that firefighters, too, want to use information technology for more than just a basic website. The best thing is that they are doing it all with open technologies. I am glad we can help," says Pavel Šnajdr, the association's chairman.
If you are wondering what runs on the VPS hosting DH.cz, it is JBoss AS, Apache, the Postfix mail server, and MySQL and PostgresSQL databases. "There are more things planned, but I do not want to get ahead of myself," Jirka told us.
The website also has a short thank-you in the text introducing the whole project:
We would like to thank the vpsFree.cz association here for providing a virtual server for SH ČMS entirely free of charge. Alongside the clear technical benefits, this will also save some money.
Similar projects we support include the servers for LinuxDays.cz, LinuxOS.sk and the Tech@SU club.