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Server Porn

78 points by shaunpud 14y ago

waterlesscloud 14y ago
That WOW server is pretty cool. Was it labeled that elaborately in production, or is that for display purposes?
- ericcholis 14y ago
  Display purposes, they auctioned them off for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital after they were decommissioned. I think they raised about $300k.
  - shaunpud 14y ago
    http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3710218 http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3710218 http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/charity-auction/ http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/charity-auction/
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- Hortinstein 14y ago
  i would love some higher res pics if anyone has seen any?
- Hortinstein 14y ago
  i would love some higher res pics if anyone has seen any?
APuschilov 14y ago
if that's where we're going here, i might as well post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDScp1JCFHM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDScp1JCFHM
- shaunpud 14y ago
  At least it's not a floppy!
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dcpn 14y ago
NSFW
- anoother 14y ago
  Please ignore parent, this is definitely SFW.
  - babarock 14y ago
    Unfortunately, that's not what the corporate filter I'm stuck behind says.
Floopsy 14y ago
That's a great server rack.
TimJRobinson 14y ago
Love the pics, I'd like to see more stats on how much HDD space / ram / CPU speed each server in each pic is.
wldlyinaccurate 14y ago
Love the pics but do the URL and page title really need to contain the word "porn"? It makes it a little embarrassing to open at work and some corporate filters will even block the page.
- anonymous 14y ago
  Yes.
taligent 14y ago
Not to draw attention away from their servers which are damn nice. This is what I call server porn: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/oracle_exadata_x3_systems/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/oracle_exadata_x3_sy... 40TB of data in RAM, 220TB on Flash. 1.5 million IOPS.
nlh 14y ago
Thanks for posting. This is the sort of fun, lighthearted stuff that geeks around the world can appreciate. And if you guys like this, there's a whole subreddit devoted to this (in fact, as you'll see from the top, there's a whole network of SFW "porn" subreddits for everything from astronomy to history pictures to natural disasters: http://www.reddit.com/r/serverporn http://www.reddit.com/r/serverporn

Server Porn

78 points by shaunpud 14y ago

waterlesscloud 14y ago

That WOW server is pretty cool. Was it labeled that elaborately in production, or is that for display purposes?

ericcholis 14y ago
Display purposes, they auctioned them off for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital after they were decommissioned. I think they raised about $300k.
- shaunpud 14y ago
  http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3710218 http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3710218 http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/charity-auction/ http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/charity-auction/
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Hortinstein 14y ago
i would love some higher res pics if anyone has seen any?
Hortinstein 14y ago
i would love some higher res pics if anyone has seen any?

APuschilov 14y ago

if that's where we're going here, i might as well post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDScp1JCFHM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDScp1JCFHM

shaunpud 14y ago
At least it's not a floppy!

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dcpn 14y ago

NSFW

anoother 14y ago
Please ignore parent, this is definitely SFW.
- babarock 14y ago
  Unfortunately, that's not what the corporate filter I'm stuck behind says.

Floopsy 14y ago

That's a great server rack.

TimJRobinson 14y ago

Love the pics, I'd like to see more stats on how much HDD space / ram / CPU speed each server in each pic is.

wldlyinaccurate 14y ago

Love the pics but do the URL and page title really need to contain the word "porn"? It makes it a little embarrassing to open at work and some corporate filters will even block the page.

anonymous 14y ago
Yes.

taligent 14y ago

Not to draw attention away from their servers which are damn nice. This is what I call server porn: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/oracle_exadata_x3_systems/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/oracle_exadata_x3_sy... 40TB of data in RAM, 220TB on Flash. 1.5 million IOPS.

nlh 14y ago

Thanks for posting. This is the sort of fun, lighthearted stuff that geeks around the world can appreciate. And if you guys like this, there's a whole subreddit devoted to this (in fact, as you'll see from the top, there's a whole network of SFW "porn" subreddits for everything from astronomy to history pictures to natural disasters: http://www.reddit.com/r/serverporn http://www.reddit.com/r/serverporn