About this Newsgroup Database

• Total News Servers: 57 (see list of active newsgroup servers)
• Total Newsgroups: 2,057
• Threads: 1,796,045
• Authors: 440,751
• Articles: 7,503,315
• First Article: 08-May-1997
• Last Article: 30-Dec-1899
• Article Database Size: more than 14GB
• Rubicon Index Size: 11,810,355 words indexed
• Data imported prior to 10-Dec-2011 was imported in Ansi. Now data is processed using UTF-8. Over time, we will attempt to re-import some old articles.

Database Servers

• Article database: Firebird SQL 2.5 on Windows 2003 32-bit
• Keyword index: Firebird SQL 2.5 on Win2003, 32-bit.
• Charset: UTF8

Software on Web Server

• www.codenewsfast.com
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (Web Edition)
• IIS 6
• Web Application v1.5.0.109
  • WebHub-v3.164 for Embarcadero Delphi XE2 32-bit
  • Searches executed by Rubicon v4.001
  • Database access by IBObjects v5.x
• Newsgroup article downloader written by Tamarack Associates, updated by HREF Tools for Unicode support, with a custom NNTP (client) component.
• Article importer written by Tamarack Associates; updated by HREF Tools
  • Embarcadero Delphi XE2, 32-bit
  • Rubicon v4.001
  • IBObjects v5.x
• Indexing subsystem
  • Rubicon v4.001
  • IBObjects v5.x compiled with Delphi XE2 win32

Hardware

64-bit hardware purchase is planned for 2012 Q1. Meanwhile, this is what we have going:

• Web and Database Server: 2x Intel Xeon 3.6GHz; 3 gb RAM
• Bandwidth: T1 (rate limited at 2000 Kbps)

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