Anapnea

Anapnea is a free shell account provider that runs Gentoo Linux.

It has been operational since January 7, 2007. The name "Anapnea" is actually an obscure English word which means "recovery of one's breath; restoration of breath". The service experienced a downtime of two months when it was hacked on June 21 by an unknown party. Service was restored August 10 on a better server with more extended services and stricter membership requirements.

Services
Anapnea currently runs on an AMD64 quad-core Gentoo server with 256MB of allocated RAM. The server offers free webspace, programs, games, development tools and community support for its members.

History

The idea for Anapnea was conceived January 4, 2007, as a student project for Nadim Kobeissi (current administrator, age 16 at the time). The project was launched on January 7 and grew quietly until it hit the front page of digg.com on January 24th. This caused a flood of users to join Anapnea, 300 in one day, causing its userbase to bubble up to 600 users in June 2007.

A hack was discovered on June 21, and Anapnea was subsequently shut down. After the shutdown, SDF, the most prominent free shell server at the time, approached Anapnea promising to repay user donations and harbor all existing Anapnea users with special accounts on SDF. A vote was accorded, and out of 30 votes, Anapnea won by a large margin, even though most of the voters were former SDF members.
Anapnea's revival project was completed August 10, 2007, and the server is currently accepting memberships once again.

On August 13, 2007, an Anapnea member by the nickname of 'internetarchitect' attempted to use Anapnea to hack into other networks and gain superuser access on Anapnea itself. This caused an angry retort by the Anapnea community, which did not fail in getting his real name, phone number, address and even a picture of his house in less than one hour. After threatening to inform internetarchitect's local authorities concerning his illegal actions, the hacker begged on the Anapnea website and in the Anapnea chat room for forgiveness and for his personal information to be taken down, all while denying his actions (even though three separate logs existed that confirmed them). He is currently a regular at the Anapnea IRC chat room. After this incident, Anapnea staff decided to tighten joining rules even more..

Historically, Anapnea has always been associated with the color purple through its four website redesigns and various other sources.

Current status

Anapnea was the home for more than 600 users from around the world. Currently, it is working on restoring its userbase after the hack that caused it to go down for two months in June 2007.

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