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We design and manufacture our own server hardware so we can optimize our cost. We select each component of our servers to get high quality servers at the best p
by edouardb 10y ago
We design and manufacture our own server hardware so we can optimize our cost. We select each component of our servers to get high quality servers at the best price and remove all unneeded components. The result is that you get a server with the best price-performance ratio.
- milosonator 10y agoThanks for the additional insight!
- matt4077 10y agoWhereas the competition enjoys paying extra, and carefully tries to find new unneeded components? Yeah, didn't think so... I guess the truth is a mixture of "larger willingness to cut corners" and "aiming for a lower margin". That's not a bad thing. It's just that in a market as transparent and competitive as this, it's really hard to be better along every single dimension.
- 7b64f0f2 10y agoSince we design our own hardware, we put exactly what we want and need into them. We share some components like power, network, and casing. This means for example : - one integrated network switch/router for 18 servers; no need to buy an external cisco/juniper/whatever - one dual power supply for the whole gang instead of 19 (18 servers + switch) - less metal/plastic parts We try to reuse hardware designs and software from one iteration to another when possible. In short, we do have less "unneeded components". Equivalent designs (thinking at moonshot for example) are expensive, so to achieve same density it's more expensive to buy existing solutions than what we design & build.