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About Niver
Niver is an installation of the ServNest program running at https://niver.niv.re/.
Getting your account approved
To prevent spam, you need to contact me to get an approval key for your account and thus be able to fully use every feature.
Infrastructure
Niver is installed and administered by Miraty, the main ServNest developer.
Niver servers are hosted in France, at Miraty's acquaintances' homes. Internet accesses are provided by the big commercial French ISP "Free".
The niv.re registry's domain is itself registered under re, a TLD for Réunion (an overseas French region) managed by AFNIC, through the registrar Gandi.
Stability
This ServNest installation is meant to be long-term maintained.
However, note that at this step of the project:
- there are no tested backups yet
- downtimes are more likely
Moderation rules
To be defined.
Privacy policy
- Only errors, forms submissions and SFTP sessions are logged, for technical purposes. Logs will not be communicated to anyone. They are not meant to be long-term archived.
- Usernames are stored on the server with similar security as passwords (Argon2id), but they can appear in clear in SFTP logs.
- Usage of Tor or other privacy tools is supported and encouraged.
- There is no rate-limiting on passwords attempts, make sure to use a strong password.
News
Important outages and policy changes will be announced on the site section for news (feed). In case of major outage, the Fediverse account @Antopie@mamot.fr (feed) may be used as last resort.
Why the niv.re domain and the Niver name?
They are alterations of the word universe (or univers in French).
Demo
This site is installed using each Niver services:
- The domain
about.niv.reis registered under theniv.reregistry. - The domain is hosted on Niver's nameservers.
- The site is hosted by the HTTP service and is available both as https://about.niv.re/ and http://otoo3vg5kxs27unvgqpx4r42hp3nu6i7m2qv2uw5mdkpaju6w3meu5ad.onion/.
The current page is served in English or in French according to the browser configuration, thanks to this .htacces configuration.
This site was generated from Markdown sources using the basic static sites generator mkht.php.
Contact
ServNest is new software, its features are not yet very user-friendly nor necessarily bug-free.
You can join the Matrix room #servnest:matrix.antopie.org or contact me directly.
*[TLD]: Top Level Domain *[ISP]: Internet Service Provider