To claim the title of "biggest," StarPlex operators employed:

: The server is rumored to have been founded by a collective of renegade archivists who believed that digital history is too fragile to be left to corporations. They archived everything from early satellite telemetry to the source code of defunct operating systems. Understanding FTP Servers

| Aspect | Specification | |--------|----------------| | | Unknown (speculated: colocated in a US data center or a university dorm) | | Software | likely WU‑FTPD or ProFTPD on Linux/FreeBSD | | Storage | RAID arrays of SCSI disks (total capacity claimed: 750 GB at peak) | | Access | anonymous FTP ( ftp.starplex.net or IP address, no longer active) | | Upload policy | Restricted to known groups; ratio system (upload:download) for premium access | | Notable contents | /pub/games/demos/ , /pub/apps/patches/ , /pub/iso/ , /pub/mp3/ (early MP3 collection) |