About SunHELP

THIS SITE IS INDEPENDENT OF AND DOES NOT REPRESENT ORACLE OR SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. IN ANY WAY.
ORACLE DOES NOT OFFICIALLY SPONSOR, APPROVE, OR ENDORSE THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENT.

General Contact: Bill Bradford (mrbill@sunhelp.org )

Editorial:
Press releases, news articles and commentary should be sent to submissions@sunhelp.org.

Technical Questions:
Please see this before you send us questions.

Staff:
Editor and Founder: Bill Bradford (Bill’s Weblog)
Contributing News Staff: Ben Rockwood and Mike

Want to write for SunHELP? Contact Bill.

Advertising Information

SunHELP always has been, and always will be, a not-for-profit venture. However, I (Bill) occasionally trade ad space for hardware or software.

Site History

SunHELP site grew out of an extensive collection of Sun and Solaris-related bookmarks I kept while working for Texas.Net (now known as Data Foundry). I started receiving so many questions and inquiries about Sun-related items that I registered a domain name and turned the Sun Q&A section of my web page into a stand-alone site (then SUNHELP.COM) in mid-1997. For 17 years now, SunHELP has provided news, information, mailing lists, and hosting for other Sun-related projects.

Equipment:

Currently, due to licensing and support pricing changes at Oracle, SunHELP runs on a generic x86-based system I built that runs Debian Linux.

In the past, SunHELP has run on servers graciously donated by Sun servers from Sun Microsystems.
We’ve also run on servers provided by Meridian Leasing, AnySystem, and Acclinet.
Past power conditioning and battery backup was provided by Power Protection Partners.
Remote management hardware is from Logical Solutions.
System and service monitoring from up.time software.
Thanks to OnRamp Access, Inc. in Austin, Texas, for hosting SunHELP from 2000-2010!

Hosted mailing lists and web sites: