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cperciva
on Oct 17, 2009
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Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your hom...
That long list of machines leads me towards two questions:
1. What are you using them all for?
2. Vertical or horizontal?
wglb
on Oct 18, 2009
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1. My startup project 2. Not sure what you mean. No database involved, logic boxes each have different function, cluster is strictly compute.
cperciva
on Oct 18, 2009
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"Horizontal" means a bunch of servers on a shelf. "Vertical" means a bunch of servers in a rack. :-)
wglb
on Oct 18, 2009
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Restaurant racks, cheap cases, multiple levels. No actual server rack. One pair of servers in fact has no case at all, sits on hollow core door.
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1. What are you using them all for?
2. Vertical or horizontal?