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Battlestar Wiki:Server specs

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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 \ Single socket 1067FSB - Dual Core capable \ PowerEdge 840
1 CPU Intel \ 1.86 GHz 1066FSB - Conroe \ Xeon 3040 (Dual Core)
2 RAM Generic \ 1024 MB \ DDR2 533 ECC Reg (Total 2 GB)
1 Hard Drive Controller Unknown \ Onboard \ SATA
1 HDD Maxtor \ 250GB:SATA:7200RPM \ MaxLine Plus II
1 WWW 100mb Uplink to Backbone
Version Software
4.0 Redhat Enterprise Linux - OS ES
1.400 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
1.400 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 $184.99 (not including taxes)
Athena $109.99 (not including taxes)
Sub-Totals
Total Servers Per Month (Per Year) ~$303 (~$3,636.00, including taxes)
Domains (Yearly) $15 (x3; .org, .net., .com)
Grand Total
~$3,681.00 per year