I have some questions about Wrong Planet's servers. If you know the answer to any of these questions, would you please let me know (in a post, not a PM)?
1. How much would it cost to add another server to Wrong Planet (including setup and programming costs)?
2. How many servers does Wrong Planet have?
3. What operating system do the servers use?
4. How much does it cost to power each server for one year?
5. How much RAM does each server have and what type of RAM is it (e.g. SRAM, DRAM etc)?
6. How many processor cores does each server have and what are they clocked at?
7. How many FLOPS does one server contribute?
8. How much storage memory does Wrong Planet have (i.e. the memory used for posts, indexes, images etc) and what percentage of that is used already?
9. How many watts does each server use on average?
10. How long would it take one of Wrong Planet's servers to index 5,000 posts of this size?
11. Where are Wrong Planet's servers located?
12. Does Wrong Planet have a backup of the post data?
13. How much cache does each server use?
14. If Wrong Planet had to reindex every post as of 9/28/10, how long would it take and would Wrong Planet be usable at that time?
15. How much heat does each server generate?
16. What storage medium does Wrong Planet use (e.g. hard disk, flash memory, SRAM etc)?
28 Sep 2010, 9:46 pm
