The Northern Virginia Internet Access Cooperative (NVIAC) is the Internet Division of Fairfax Publix Access (FPA). FPA’s mission to provide to the citizens of Fairfax County Virginia, public access in all manner of media: Television, Radio, and Internet.

Read our complete mission statement. Want more info? Read about our Services. Like what you see? sign up now.

Our existing users will find our support pages and our contact information most helpful.

Nova.org at a glance:

• Enterprise-class email
  • Available by IMAP, POP, and web
  • Better spam protection than Google, Hotmail or Yahoo!
  • Built-in anti-virus protection
• UNIX shell accounts accessable via ssh and ftp
• Web pages with the ability to install custom web software
• Low cost, Best Effort Personal Colocation for hosting your personal servers
• Dialup Internet Access
• Backup MX mail services, DNS services
• FreeBSD used throughout
• Fairfax, VA datacenter
• 10Mbps fiber from Cox Business with three /24 netblocks, 4 hour SLA

For pricing or to simply learn more, check out our Services page. To sign up, visit our new account sign-up form.

For $232/year, or $20/month, you get the following:

• Membership in Fairfax Public Access
• Up to 5 email addresses @nova.org with Symantec Antispam and Webmail
• Unlimited Domain and DNS hosting
• Shell account with SSH, FTP, Apache, PHP 5, Perl 5.8.8, MySQL
• Dialup access

We know there are a lot of geeks in Northern Virginia who want a static IP and a decent Internet connection. Starting at USD$40/month, you can host your own server at our colocation facility. You get power, cooling, bandwidth and access to our Symantec Antispam Appliances. We call it Best Effort Colo: no frills, no guarantees, no SLAs, just cheap personal colo to host your servers. Learn More about our Best Effort Colocation services.

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