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Ask HN: What companies use custom designed server hardware?
Most companies use regular cloud providers, like AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, etc.
However some go above that and build custom server hardware for their use cases.
For example Imgix. http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros
- detaro 10y agoBackblaze with their Storage Pods: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... Facebook and others via the the Open Compute project: http://opencompute.org/ http://opencompute.org/ Google, Microsoft and Amazon, at the very least for deep learning/FPGA stuff, but probably a lot of others as well. If "just" assembling whiteboxes counts, there is going to be a some of smaller orgs with co-located servers that do this for various reasons.
- cdvonstinkpot 10y agoRegarding Google's use of 'custom silicon': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13409381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13409381