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What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?

April 26, 2017hardware run Slashdot

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What kind of hardware does Slashdot run on?

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Slashdot is running on 18 web servers, each with an 8-core Xeon, 8GB of RAM, and two 250GB SATA drives in a RAID1. Two more servers of the same config run Slashd. There are five database servers, each containing quad-core xeons and 8 15k RPM SAS drives in a RAID5.