The details of the dedicated server (at the time the site starts) are as follows:

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> OS: Linux CentOS
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> CPU: Intel® Pentium 4 - 3.0 GHz
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> RAM: 2 GB
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> Storage: 2 x 120 GB hard drives
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> Bandwidth: 500 GB per month
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The AJAX chat is customly coded. It runs by sending and receiving Javascript commands to and from the database, and then evaluating them.

The chat refresh rate will probably be somewhere around 250ms, although the answers here may change the decision.