ashanti.indypgh.org Info Page

Ashanti is named after the Black Panther/Black Liberation Army, Estacion Libre, and Critical Resistance activist and former political prisoner Ashanti Alston.

Contact Information

• ashanti is hosted by the Pittsburgh IMC (http://indypgh.org) and maintained by techs from pittsburgh and other IMCs. Pittsburgh techs can be reached at tech@indypgh.org
• email staughton-tech-subscribe@lists.indypgh.org to join the mailing list for this server. all hosted IMCs and sysadmins are welcome. see http://lists.indypgh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/staughton-tech for more info.

System

• Ashanti (formerly 'newdega') was built and deployed by Pittsburgh IMC techs to replace Dega which was under too much load. Thanks to ski for help with the hardware.

Hardware

• Pentium III at 666MHz
• 320 MB RAM - now 512MB RAM (supposedly maximum capacity) (upgraded early october 2005)
• disks:
  • hda: Maxtor 2F040L0 ATA DISK drive
  • hdc: Maxtor 2F040L0 ATA DISK drive
• eth0 is a ADMtek Comet connected to the Internet via netgear 10/100 switch.
• eth1 is a Macronix 98715 PMAC connected via crossover cable to Carlsson, the db server.

Software

OS

• ashanti runs debian linux (sarge)
• hda and hdc make up a single software raid1 array using the linux 'md' and 'raid1' modules. see AshantiMetaInfo

other

• webserver is apache 1.3.33-6sarge1, php version 4.3.10-16
• IMC sites are running dadaIMC (0.99)

Hosted indymedia sites

• http://santacruz.indymedia.org (archives only. sc-imc is now here)
• http://richmond.indymedia.org
• http://estrecho.indymedia.org
• http://arkansas.indymedia.org
• http://twincities.indymedia.org
• http://belgium.indymedia.org (re-direct page)
• http://sonora.indymedia.org (placeholder page)

Statistics

• http://greenbike.indypgh.org/munin

Backups

• None yet (!)

-- DannyP - 01 Apr 2005 -- MattToups - 12 Apr 2005 -- JimNelson - 01 Jun 2005 -- JimNelson - 05 Jul 2005 (added Belgium and Sonora)