On 19 Sep 2004, at 01:20, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Sunday or Monday, I want to spend $10,000 on new hardware. What should it be?
- 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.
- 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
- Some have suggested more squids? Is there consensus on that?
DISCLAIMER: I am an IRRATIONAL and biased religious fanatic about these things.
That said... ...since you're asking... Yellow Dog Linux Xserve's of course!
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/apple/xserves.shtml http://www.apple.com/xserve/ http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/
Best bang for your buck! They're Apple Servers (with full hardware warranty) from an official Value Added Reseller, they're running a very decent Linux distro, they're ready for 64bit computing (Y-HPC) -- and they're 1U! Given the above details, you could probably fit in THREE of these beauties.
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