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posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-really-do-it dept.

By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.

We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.

In keeping with tradition, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by technopoptart on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:57PM

    by technopoptart (1746) <reversethis-{oc. ... ht} {ta} {semaj}> on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:57PM (#2901)

    Donations, seems to be the best way.

      I am curious to know about the hardware and hosting details. Is this hosted at a home / home office/ a company supportive of the ./ community, or a VPS provider?

    But i think this community is big enough and had a good percentage of people earning a good living. Some people will give $5/$10 a couple times a year, and others will give $300 or $500 a year.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by boltronics on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:41AM

    by boltronics (580) on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:41AM (#3321) Homepage Journal

    Originally, they were running on two Linode 2048s running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

    http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/18/072 4232&mode=nocomment [soylentnews.org]

    However Barrabas wrote that they're also planning three additional servers for development, testing and experimentation purposes.

    http://soylentnews.org/~Barrabas/journal/41&mode=n ocomment [soylentnews.org]

    According to the front page of the Linode website (https://www.linode.com/), a 2Gb server (presumably what is meant by "Linode 2048s") is $40/month (presumably in USD). So $80/month for production. If the other three servers are the cheaper $20/month 1Gb machines, then we seem to be looking at US$140/month absolute minimum (assuming no extra storage or data transfer quota is required). That figure also does not include things like domain name registration, SSL certificates, etc.

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    It's GNU/Linux dammit!