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For those with custom hardware setups like this, how much time do you estimate you've spent designing, building, and maintaining custom servers? I can see how
by wes-exp 15y ago
For those with custom hardware setups like this, how much time do you estimate you've spent designing, building, and maintaining custom servers?
I can see how it would be less effort than sharding, but it seems like throwing hardware at the problem is not a completely "free lunch" when you get to the scale of having to custom design a server supercomputer and source specially made SSDs and terabytes of RAM.
- sciurus 15y agoYou don't need to "custom design a server supercomputer". This stuff is as mainstream as Dell. You can go to dell.com and order a Poweredge R815 with 64 processor cores and 512GB of RAM for $16,000. If you want SSDs, you can purchase SATA or PCIe ones from Dell as well. http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-r815/pd http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-r815/pd http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/fusion-io-drive/pd http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/fusion-io-drive/pd