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This site (and a dozen others) is served on an Apple Mac mini Core Duo 2.0, with 2 gigabytes of RAM, using Mac OS X 10.6.4. It uses the standard-distribution Apache 2.2.14 and some pages use PHP 5.3.2. Databases are platformed on another machine that runs MySQL 5.0.86. The network is connected to the Internet via an ADSL line provided by AT&T, 512kbps up, using routers and switches from Netopia and NetGear.

From mid-February 2009 to mid-January 2011, these sites were served using Mac OS X, 10.4.11 on a Macintosh Gigabit Ethernet machine, with dual 450 mHz processors (1 megabyte backside cache), with 1 gigabytes of RAM, a Sonnet Tempo ATA-100 PCI EIDE adapter card and two 80-gigabyte hard drives from Western Digital. Additional software includes PHP 5.2.4 (Entropy.ch release), MySQL 4.0.24 and Webmin 1.250.

From Jan. 1, 2006 until mid-February 2009, the machine serving these sites was a Macintosh 7600 PowerPC that had a Sonnet Crescendo G4/450 (1 megabyte backside cache) processor upgrade, with 1 gigabytes of RAM, a Sonnet Tempo ATA-133 PCI EIDE adapter card and two 160-gigabyte hard drives from Western Digital. It too used Mac OS 10.4.11.

From May 1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2005, the site was platformed on that same machine, though it had much less memory, used a slower ATA card and had a only an 80-gigabyte drive. During that entire period the machine served about a dozen domains with WebSTAR 4.2, on Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9, connected to the Internet through Open Transport 2.5 on a T1 line co-located at Planeteria in San Francisco.

Between April 15, 1995 and 4:30 a.m., April 7, 2000, this web site was served on a Macintosh IIci running first, MacHTTP and later, WebStar. The machine had 20mb of RAM and a 28.8-kps full-time Internet connection.

List services are hosted on a Macintosh 7600 PowerPC, similarly configured to the 7600 listed above, circa 2006. Lists are run on the open/free application Mailman, which is based on the Python programming language. In turn, Mailman interfaces with Postfix, the Open Source SMTP/POP/IMAP mail transfer agent (we're currently running Version 2.1.5).

We are running Eudora Mail Server (EIMS) X 3.3.6 for our general SMPT and POP, and it is front-ended by CounterAgent 2 from Jett Fuel Productions LLC. The machine running these services is a Macintosh Gigabit Ethernet tower computer, single 450-MHz processor, 1.25 gigabytes of RAM running Mac OS X, 10.4.11. DNS services are hosted on the same machine, running BIND 9.3.5. Secondary DNS service is provided by DNS Made Easy, though we also host some secondary DNS services on the Mailman machine as well.