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Re:Geocities Cage at the Exodus Datacenter by setq on Friday November 25, 2016 @10:48AM (#13037482)
Yeah pricing was awful. I remember someone playing £12k for a single PA RISC CPU option and when they cracked it open to have a look it was 95% heatsink. Cue the "bloody expensive heatsink" comments.

It had about as much go as one of those "big slab" xeon slot CPUs at the time which was 1/10th of the cost.

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Re:Geocities Cage at the Exodus Datacenter by SSLy on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:30PM (#13039992)
Well, I've seen appliances over $50k a piece ( you need at least two to be useful.) So systems like that are still here.
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Re:Geocities Cage at the Exodus Datacenter by tyingq on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:18PM (#13040603)
Right, because they aren't currently commodity items. Wouldn't take much, for example, though, to get haproxy to a state where it starts eating F5 lab's lunch. A nicer ui, etc.

It took Linux and commodity servers a while to kill the $100k+/each proprietary unix server market.

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