Project History

The California Community Colocation Project (CCCP) was started in 2001 as a project of Online Policy Group, an organization dedicated to developing strategies for universal access to internet technology. OPG, in turn, is a project affiliated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. CCCP's mission was to provide donation-based colocation services to non-profits in the community.

The CCCP cabinets were quickly filled and we were hosting thousands of websites -- from open source projects to community-organized news from Argentina to streaming Buddhist MP3 radio to the database backend for the Special Olympics.

In 2003, a lot of attention was focused on CCCP after a DMCA takedown order we received from the Diebold corporation was successfully fought off in the courts. After this incident, it became clear to everyone why community-controlled networks were essential for a lot of the groups hosting their sites with CCCP.

A number of groups working with CCCP had long wished for a colocation facility closer to home for San Francisco residents. CCCP's cabinets were in Fremont, California -- a good 90 minute ride from the city. The withdrawal of some key organizers from CCCP in December 2006 provided the catalyst for making a San Francisco CCP happen. In December 2006, SFCCP was founded and we started moving our servers in a couple weeks later.