Sunday or Monday, I want to spend $10,000 on new hardware. What should it be?
1. 2 gigabit switches are ordered already, so don't say anything about that. :-)
2. Rackspace is now at a premium, HOWEVER, we should not worry a LOT about that, since we are going to have to get a 2nd Rack very soon no matter what we decide today. There is approximately 3U left in the rack, maybe 4U.
A 2nd rack is going to add $700 per month to our colocation bill, not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
3. I have here in the office 12 4U servers (11 mobos, 12 cases) of extremely questionable quality. Details are posted on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_donation_September_2004
4. Some have suggested more squids? Is there consensus on that?