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13 <h1>About SIPB Virtual Servers</h1>
15 SIPB Virtual Servers is an experimental service from the <a href="http://sipb.mit.edu/">Student Information Processing Board</a> which attempts to provide members of the MIT community with an easy way to create virtual machines which they can remotely administer.
17 <h2>SIPB Virtual Servers is an Alpha Service</h2>
19 Lots of services claim to be beta when they're really almost release-worthy. SIPB Virtual Servers is an alpha service in the true sense of the word. This means that we make almost no promises. Specifically, we make <strong>no promises</strong> about:
22 <li><strong>Security</strong>: All of the current developers of SIPB Virtual Servers have root access to black-mesa, the host machine for all of the virtual machines through both root and null instances.</li>
23 <li><strong>Uptime</strong>: The SIPB Virtual Servers developers reserve the right to bring down both black-mesa and its VMs without warning or notification.</li>
24 <li><strong>Data integrity</strong>: We do not back up data on SIPB Virtual Servers VMs</li>
27 <p>If you're OK with this, we hope you enjoy using and helping us test <a href="/">SIPB Virtual Servers</a>.</p>
30 Questions? Contact <a href="mailto:sipb-xen@mit.edu">sipb-xen@mit.edu</a>.