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Never bought into the VM fad myself. The physical hardware is chugging along quite nicely over here.
by twic 7y ago
Never bought into the VM fad myself. The physical hardware is chugging along quite nicely over here.
- aww_dang 7y agoAgreed. At this point HN could have a post about the merits of plain old dedicated servers and it would seem novel.
- hotsauceror 7y agoJust wait. In ten more years IBM and Deloitte will re-brand fat clients and on-prem infrastructure as something else and they'll start selling it to everyone. Replace "mainframe" and "dumb terminal" with "the cloud" and "web app" and we had this same conversation 40 years ago. Then in another 20 years we'll swing back to some version of consolidated+remote servers and lightweight client access portals.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y agoDepends on your use case. VMs give you more flexibility and a reasonable level of isolation that is needed in some scenarios.
- freehunter 7y agoOwning physical hardware is a fad. I rent big iron mainframes from IBM and pay their consulting fees to punch new cards every time I want to modify a program.
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- sickygnar 7y agoWondering if things will swing back to physical hardware with new chips like the amd epyc rome... 64 core ridiculous i/o on a single chip. that, compounded with the fact that people seem to be gravitating back towards compiled and higher performance languages. could run a medium traffic site on one machine. hello mainframe era 2.0