Dennis de Houx

Web Developer
Network Administrator
System Administrator

About Me Sponsor Me

About me

I'm a developer and administrator from Belgium and I try to help the open source community as much as I can by contributing my own works, report bugs and create bugfixes so others can benefit from them.

Currently I'm interested in routing (BGP networks) and spending lots off time building out my personal network and creating some helpful tools for it, that I'm sharing on github. So every little contribution, sponsorship is a motivation to keep on doing what I'm doing.

Things I use on a daily/weekly basis

Projects I love and use

Hardware I use

Sponsorship

Sponsor me if you like my work

Do you like my work or even use some of my projects and want to help me with a small or large contribution/donation, then you can sponsor me and my work thru one of the following services.

Some off the sponsorship money may flow back to other developers or projects that I support myself or find very useful.

The majority of the money will be used to keep my development servers running and to upgrade my hardware when this is needed. Power ain't cheap and hardware doesn't last for an eternity.

In the case you are also running a personal ASN then take a look at my AS215956 network website and perhaps we can peer with each other or I can provide you with upstream services.

Github

One time sponsoring starting from € 1,-.
Membership starting from € 1,-/month up to € 500,-/month.

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By me a coffee

One time sponsoring starting from € 5,-.
Membership starting from € 1,-/month up to € 500,-/month.

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Liberapay

Membership starting from € 0,01/week up to € 5.200,-/year.

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Licenses

The licenses I stand by

As a developer myself I know it is hard to contribute to the open source community and make money at the same time. This is why I stand by the following licenses, yes even the Fair-Code one's, because we all have to make a living somehow.

What I can't stand however is large companies making money from commercializing open source projects without any contribution toward the project or reward(s) for the maintainer(s).

This is why some of my code is Software as a Service, so I can make some money back on my investment/time and why I released those projects under the Fair-Code licenses, free for individual use (yes even for 1000+ employer companies) but forbidden to sell it to their own clients (unless licensed by me).

But fear not, most of my work is released under the open source umbrella with following licenses like MIT, GPLv3 or Creative Commons. I've also been a core developer for some open source projects in the past.

Fair-Code

Fair-code is not a software license. It describes a software model where software:

is generally free to use and can be distributed by anybody
has its source code openly available
can be extended by anybody in public and private communities
is commercially restricted by its authors

Open Source

Open Source software which source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees. Most used licenses are BSD, MIT, GPLv3 or derivatives of this license.

is free to use and can be distributed by anybody
has its source code openly available
can be extended by anybody in public and private communities
is commercially restricted by its authors

Projects

AS215956 · MyIP.be

This is my own autonomous system (AS) I run to learn BGP and other routing protocols. RoutingK.it is also tested on this network so I can discover bugs very quickly in a live enviroment and not only in a lab enviroment.

If you also run your own ASN then take a look at the website to find all the information about peering or the Internet Exchanges where I'm connected.

If you run a non-commercial project, I can provider you with free upstream services or for really low costs. If you are in need of ip space I can provider you with a free /48 IPv6 range or for very low prices starting from € 2,-/year for a /47 up to /44 IPv6 range.

Visit Website Visit Github

Nomen-Servo

Nomen-Servo is the white label service of MySecondary and free for any non-commercial AS owner to use. We support DNSEC for reverse ptr records, automatic generation of IPv4 and IPv6 reverse.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in this free service.

Contact me

Company

All In One

Hosting for the core business.

The webhosting company I'm have been running for over 20 years, providing all sorts off hosting services, management and consulting.

Custom Solutions
On-Prem or in the Cloud
Excellent support
Free included services

Many services are provided under different sub projects or bands like myip.be for management of cpe routers/switches/wifi, myinfra.eu for management of servers, mystream.be for streaming services, mysecondary.eu for secondary nameserver hosting, myrds.be for domain name registration for resellers and oftc.be the webdevelopment brand.

SaaS

The Software as a Service projects I run to recuperate some of my time and investment for building these projects.

RoutingK.it

Alpha version

Fair-Code

Webbased portal to manage your routers, BGP Sessions, Internet Exchanges, ..., create automatic configs with bogon, rpki and other filters for bird2 (mikrotik, frr and others may follow).

TakeMSG.it

Beta version

Open Source

Receive contact forms for simple html websites, with extensive api support and control panel.

Ambulog

Deprecated

Closed source

Ambulog is an administration tool for ambulance personal to keep track of interventions, timesheets, personal rosters and more...