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solidarity_economy_hosting [2026/05/04 21:37] – [Summary] jadesolidarity_economy_hosting [2026/05/04 21:41] (current) – [Qualifying Businesses] jade
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   - **Sustainable and FOSS** (goal 1)   - **Sustainable and FOSS** (goal 1)
     - While the business can also engage in other operations, all it's services withing a MBT regional context should be Qualifying Services on Qualifying Servers.     - While the business can also engage in other operations, all it's services withing a MBT regional context should be Qualifying Services on Qualifying Servers.
 +    - The business must contribute back financially to the FOSS projects that it hosts, to an amount that is at least 10% of it's gross revenue.
   - **Participate in Land Back** (goal 4)   - **Participate in Land Back** (goal 4)
     - If the business is run by settlers, it must contribute a percentage of it's gross revenue to land-back financial programs such as "pay the rent". That percentages is set by MBT in consultation with all partner businesses, and is initially 10%.     - If the business is run by settlers, it must contribute a percentage of it's gross revenue to land-back financial programs such as "pay the rent". That percentages is set by MBT in consultation with all partner businesses, and is initially 10%.
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 The servers that the business operates to run it's hosting services as part of this arrangement must meet the following criteria: The servers that the business operates to run it's hosting services as part of this arrangement must meet the following criteria:
  
-  - All servers must be in the designated region (ideally) or within 1km of the region boundary, with the exception of:+  - **Local:** All servers must be in the designated region (ideally) or within 1km of the region boundary, with the exception of:
     - Cloud/Data-center servers may be used for offsite backups, optional tools connecting to other cloud services, and/or DNS - providing that they are not hosted with Amazon, Google or Microsoft.      - Cloud/Data-center servers may be used for offsite backups, optional tools connecting to other cloud services, and/or DNS - providing that they are not hosted with Amazon, Google or Microsoft. 
-  - All servers must be able to be 100% powered by renewables in optimal conditions, and achieve at least 80% renewable power on average+  - **Powered by Renewables:** All servers must be able to be 100% powered by renewables in optimal conditions, and achieve at least 80% renewable power on average
     - Renewable power generation must be on-site (ideally), or arranged through a local grass-roots run community installation within the region.      - Renewable power generation must be on-site (ideally), or arranged through a local grass-roots run community installation within the region. 
-  - Within one year of operation, all server locations must remain online for a three-day power outage, providing at least the level of functionality currently supported by LoRes. That does not mean all computers must be powered for three days, it's fine for large servers to turn off and leave lower powered servers to provide this functionality +  - **Resilient fallback:** Within one year of operation, all server locations must remain online for a three-day power outage, providing at least the level of functionality currently supported by LoRes. That does not mean all computers must be powered for three days, it's fine for large servers to turn off and leave lower powered servers to provide this functionality 

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