161672 Usenet Indexing Software

We need someone to install and customize an open source Usenet indexing package called ikbin. Details regarding requirements are below 1. VMWARE / Linux The installation needs to be conducted on a VMWare-based virtual machine running a recent and common version of Linux. A base LAMP appliance is fine if necessary. The system uses Apache / PHP and MySQL 2. Ikbin Indexing System: Ikbin is an open source project. The installation package is attached. The project can be found on sourceforge here: [login to view URL] The system needs to be installed and configured to connect to a usenet service provider. We will provide appropriate access. 3. Indexing Capacity Requirements At a minimum, the system needs to be able to index at least 500 binary groups (see this list as a starting point of groups to index: [login to view URL]) while retaining at least 100 days of indexed content. Delivery of the project must include an estimate of memory, disk storage, CPU and bandwidth requirements for the indexing system. 4. User Capacity Requirements The site must be able to service at least 200 concurrent users at any given time with a sub 5 second response time. 5. Usenet Provider Access We will provide an appropriate login and password for a usenet server to generate the indexing content. 6. Automation The system must automatically run on a scheduled basis to keep the index current. 7. Look and Feel The look and feel needs to be customized as per the attached mock up jpeg. The content should be delivered in an IFRAME from the VMWARE-based server so that it can be integrated into the [login to view URL] site content easily. 8. Hosted Service We will consider a hosted service if a provider is already running an ikbin or similar Usenet indexing system.