you are correct, margins are very thin in hosting company business and the absolute most server performance/number of nodes for the least money is very importan

you are correct, margins are very thin in hosting company business and the absolute most server performance/number of nodes for the least money is very important. have been on the manufacturing side of this before. bulk x86-64 servers such as you could buy from the vendors you meet at the computex taipei are a big part of it. things along the same general idea as the supermicro that is 2U high and has four discrete nodes in it, but cheaper. long/narrow motherboards with dual socket xeons and other similar stuff... if the price for this is not market competitive with that, or just a bunch of 1U commodity dual socket servers, the only people buying it will be enterprise/specialty end user and not hosting operations.