This page lists the requirements for a freenode server.

• Hardware and Bandwidth
• Software and Administration

• 1GHz or faster processor (AMD or Intel preferred)
• 1GB or more memory
• 15GB or more disk space
• multihomed internet connection
• T3 minimum (for latency and reliability)
•   hubs: about 25GB/month
•   leafs: about 250GB/month

• bash
• editors, including joe, nano and vi
• FreeBSD 4.7+ or GNU/Linux (2.6+ kernel)
• gcc 3.3 or later
• IRC client
• ntpd
• opensshd (recent)
• perl 5.8 or later
• ruby 1.8.3 or later
• rsync
• screen
• vixie crond

• process file descriptor limits of at least 16384
• unlimited core files

• 24-7, reliable operation
• emergency server administration contact
• dedicated use (preferred)
• root access (preferred)

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