Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid hard problems

Re:Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid ha... by mattculbreth on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @10:31PM (#16523)

This is a cool thread.

So please spec out a couple servers for us. How would you get a bunch of memory (32GB, 64GB even) into one of them and still have it be a good web/app server?

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Re:Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid ha... by aristus on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @12:35AM (#16551)

My current favorite is the Altus 600 from Penguin Computing. Cheap chassis with dual sockets and 16 RAM slots. More slots means cheaper chips. 2GB chips for that board are about 300 bucks. Throw two 2.2GHz Opterons and 2x 300GB drives in there. Add an SATA controller card, 4 SATA/CF adapters and CF cards (in the CD-ROM bay), and you've got a nice machine: 1U, dual processors, 32GB of RAM, 600GB of platter, 32GB of flash for about USD$7500.

Expensive, yeah. 5 grand of that is RAM. You could get away with 4GB of RAM and still have a fucking fast web/app server as long as your active dataset fits on the flash.

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Re:Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid ha... by paul on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @01:18AM (#16560)

$215: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E168201343...

Brings the memory cost down to around $3440.

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Re:Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid ha... by aristus on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @08:43AM (#16613)

Wrong speed but yeah, that's the ballpark. I used Crucial to price the RAM.

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