Server hosting
This is a work in progress
Slrpnk.net is hosted by F-hub.org, a volunteer driven and non-commercial effort to host federated community services in a resource efficient and ethical way. F-hub.org grew out of a community of open-source game developers (freegamedev.net) that has existed since the early 2000s.
All the servers are operated and maintained (as a hobby) by one of the founding members and are currently located on the Azores in Portugal. Connectivity is provided through a dedicated high-speed fibreglass connection.
Hardware
The F-hub.org servers are based on second-hand consumer PC and data-centercentre hardware, but optimized for low energy consumption. Battery backup power is provided and data is stored with triple redundancy (off-site backups are still a work in progress). Electricity is currently provided by the utility grid (about 60% green-energy, mostly from a geothermal power-plant) but plansit existis a work in progress to upgrade to a on-site solar PV system for near 100% renewable power.
All the servers are operated and maintained (as a hobby) by one of the founding members and are currently located on the Azores in Portugal. Connectivity is provided through a dedicated high-speed glasfiber connection.
Hardware
Slrpnk.net itself currently runs on a shareddedicated 7th6th gen Intel CPU server with 8 threads, 32GB16GB RAM and SATA SSD storage in raid configuration. ImagesImage uploads are stored on a large HDD raid arrayarray. withAll automatic caching on SSD storage.
The plandata is tosnapshotted migrateand attransferred leastfor the main PostgreSQL databasebackup to a dedicatedsecond 4th gen Intelshared server (4on cores,daily 8GB ram) with faster NVMe SSD storage to optimize data access performance.basis.
External services
Given how difficult it is to have outgoing email accepted by the large email providers, all emails are currently routed through an external SMTP server hosted by OVH in France (same as the domain registration and DNS routing).
There are backup plans to move the servers to a co-location data-center owned by Altice, should this be required for scaling. However, monthly rent of rack-space is quite costly (starts at around 300€/month), thus this will require a substancialsubstantial regular donation base to be possible.