About

Database

• News Servers: 64
• Newsgroups: 2,019 (see current list of newsgroups)
• Threads: 1,731,689
• Authors: 430,721
• Articles: 7,276,996
• First Article: 5/8/1997 2:50:58 AM
• Last Article: 8/15/2010 2:46:13 AM
• Database Size: MB
• Rubicon Index Size: MB

Hardware

• Web Server: Pentium 4, 256kb RAM
• Separate Database Server: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz, 3gb 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 7
  • Rubicon v3 (from 2010)
  • IBObjects v4.8.6
• Indexing subsystem
  • Delphi 7
  • Rubicon v3 (from 2010)
  • IBObjects v4.8.6