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About Our System
(Geek Stuff)
If you take a look at our
financial situation, it is easily
determined that cost is an important factor is designing,
implementing and managing this online resource. Open source software
is
critical. In addition to the incredibly reasonable price of
the operating system, tools and Web software (FREE), the tools are powerful,
secure, flexible and well designed.
 Hardware:
Our web server is a home-built, hand-me-down system donated by the
Victory Seed Company. The mid tower case contains a 250 watt power
supply, an
Abit BP6 dual socket motherboard
with dual 533 MHz Intel Celeron processors, 256 MB RAM, 30.7 GB EIDE
Ultra ATA/66 hard disk drive, Plextor 12x10x32 CD ReWriter
connected to power through an APC 1500-XS UPS.
For more
information about how you can help with
this and other projects, please
click here.
Click on picture to the right for more system pictures and specs.
[Historical
Note: Our original server was put into service in September of 2002.
At the time that it was installed, it was already a very old, used,
generic 350 MHz, Pentium II computer with 192 MB RAM and a 3.2 GB
hard disk drive. It has served us well and aside from scary
hard drive noises, it is still operating as a standby web server
running patched Mandrake 9.1.]
Operating System: Mandriva Linux version 10.0 with
patches serving pages with Apache. They are amazing, open
source, and are compact and efficient enough to operate on old
equipment.
Software:
Our forum is powered by
phpBB2 © 2001, 2005 phpBB
Group.
Network: As of October,
2003, the farm is completely wired. All buildings except for
the chicken coop, the machine shed and the loafing barn are
connected. We push 100 Mbps around
the LAN and connect to the outside world through a 768/384 kBps ADSL pipe.
Security: Along with
the usual compliment of anti-spam, anti-spyware, anti-virus and
firewall software, we utilize a
US
Robotics 8200 Secure Storage Router Pro/Firewall.
Storage: The
USR 8200
also acts a a network storage appliance. External hard
drives connect via USB 2.0 or Firewire ports. This resource
is not available outside of our LAN. Additionally, to
address data integrity / loss issues as well as file storage for
our document scanning projects and data archive, two, one terabyte
TeraStation's by Buffalo Technology, Inc. have been
implemented in a RAID 5 configuration.
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