May First reportback

https://mayfirst.coop/en/

Cost inquiry in 8/12/25 ~LP

I sent an email asking about costs before I found their pricing page, it's a bit complicated, so dialogue might still be necessary: https://mayfirst.coop/en/member-benefits/

Basic shared hosting for us would be $125/yr for basic services and 100G (Plan 2)

A VPS (fully managed or partially managed) would be $70/month for 25 GB system disk, 1 CPU core, 1 GB of RAM.

Server & Applications

Most users run shared infra. Creates some limitations on docker based stuff: https://help.mayfirst.org/en/explain/shared-hosting-supported-applications

But they do offer VPS services as well: https://mayfirst.coop/en/services/

Core offerings:

• Email is structured with separate components for user/address/inbox, see: https://help.mayfirst.org/en/explain/about-email
• Mailing lists via GNU Mailman
• Websites (HTML or CMS-based) https://help.mayfirst.org/en/explain/about-websites
• Nextcloud - Unclear what modules they have running
• Chat/forums - Jabber/XMPP (Gajim), Discourse
• Videoconference - Jitsi

Infrastructure map/topology

https://help.mayfirst.org/en/explain/why-new-infrastructure

Red flags & potential issues

Documentation

Some of their help pages and documentation is incomplete or broken

^^^ https://help.mayfirst.org/en/links/common-tasks