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Battlerstar Wiki is powered by the data facility ThePlanet, located in Dallas, Texas. You can take a look at their website for more detailed information. (If you order services from them, please reference this wiki!)

The Servers

The two servers we have are named Apollo and Athena. Apollo hosts all our tools minus the SQL database, which is handled exclusively by Athena.

Apollo

Quantity	Type	Hardware Component
1	Motherboard	Dell \ 1066/1333FSB Dual Xeon \ PowerEdge 2950
2	CPU	Intel \ 2.0 GHz 1333FSB - Harpertown \ Xeon 5405 (Quad Core)
2	RAM	Generic \ 1024 MB \ DDR2 667 FB DIMM
1	Hard Drive Controller	Dell \ 9G Drive Controller - SAS/SATA - budget raid \ SAS 6/iR
2	HDD	Western Digital \ 250GB:SATA:7200RPM \ WD2500JD
1	WWW	100mb Uplink to Backbone
Version	Software
5.0	Redhat Enterprise Linux - OS ES
1.420	Webmin

Athena

Quantity	Type	Hardware Component
1	Motherboard	Gigabyte \ GA-8IG1000MK \ GA-8IG1000MK
1	CPU	Intel \ 2.4 Ghz \ P4 Celeron
2	RAM	Generic \ 1024 MB \ DDR 266 (Total 2 GB)
1	Hard Drive Controller	Unknown \ Onboard \ IDE
1	HDD	Seagate \ 80GB:IDE:7200RPM Barracuda \ ST380011a
1	WWW	100mb Uplink to Backbone
Version	Software
4.0	Redhat Enterprise Linux - OS ES
1.420	Webmin

Finances

These server are supported through the ads, in addition to donations from members and commissions from Amazon.com, iTunes, et al. All sites on these servers (with the exception of the Frak Media! website) have Google ads on them which support these servers. The breakdown is as follows. This was as of November 2007.

Server	Cost per Month
Apollo	$259.00 (not including taxes)
Athena	$109.99 (not including taxes)
Sub-Totals
Total Servers Per Month (Per Year)	~$369 (~$4,428.00, including taxes)
Domains (Yearly)	$15 (x3; .org, .net., .com)
Grand Total
	~$4,473.00 per year

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