what is miranda.org?

miranda.org is a free service for Internet hosting. Our services include:

• electronic mail
  • spam and virus filtering
  • various modes of secure mail reading including webmail, POP3/SSL, and IMAP/SSL
• web hosting
• database hosting
• domain name service

what technologies drive miranda.org?

• the Linux operating system
• the Apache httpd web server
• the MySQL database server
• the qmail mail transport agent
• the SpamAssassin mail filter
• the ClamAV anti-virus scanner
• the BIND domain name server

how can I use miranda.org services?

If you know us, you're eligible for miranda.org services for personal or non-profit organizational use. We use an informal "one degree removed" rule to decide who we will host, as a way to keep things manageable.

Complete our account application so we'll have your contact and technical requirements information. We'll contact you to let you know if we have any questions and to give you an estimate of when we can set up your services (or if we think there are any issues with hosting you).

why is it called miranda.org?

Miranda is the name of a backcountry camp at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarrón, New Mexico. The camp is named after Guadaloupe Miranda, who applied with Charles Beaubien in 1841 to the local Mexican governor for a land grant including about 2 million acres of land in what is now northeastern New Mexico.

Common but incorrect guesses at the basis of the name include the Miranda functional programming language and the Miranda v. Arizona decision that resulted in the United States' "Miranda rights".