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Technical Overview

The stuff that powers HaloScan for those curious...

Hardware

• Load balancer
  • (1) Dell Poweredge 700
• Web servers
  • (4) Dell Poweredge 1750
• Database servers
  • (1) Dell Poweredge 1750
  • (1) Dell Poweredge 2650

Software

• Standard LAMP∞ base
  • Linux∞ - Operating system
  • Apache∞ - Web server
  • MySQL∞ - Database server
  • PHP∞ - Scripting language
• Other programs
  • Pound∞ - Load balancer / Reverse proxy
  • memcached∞ - Caching system
  • lighttpd∞ - Web server

Hosting / Network

• Hosted by LiveRack∞