About

Database

• News Servers: 64
• Newsgroups: 2,019 (see current list of newsgroups)
• Threads: 1,695,426
• Authors: 425,137
• Articles: 7,234,033
• First Article: 5/8/1997 2:50:58 AM
• Last Article: 2/13/2010 10:31:01 AM
• Database Size: 14,792 MB
• Rubicon Index Size: 2,740 MB

Hardware

• Server: Pentium 4 2.40ghz, 1gb RAM
• Bandwidth: T1 (rate limited at 2Mbps)
• Shared with other web sites

Software

• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (Web Edition)
• IIS 6
• Firebird SQL 2.1
• ISAPI web extension, Newsgroup article downloader, admin programs written by Tamarack Associates
  • Delphi 5
  • Rubicon v2.22 (from 2004)
  • IBObjects
• Indexing subsystem
  • Delphi 7
  • Rubicon v3 (from 2009)
  • IBObjects v4.8.6