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Re:Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud? by flannell on Saturday October 02, 2010 @06:35PM (#1751537)
Okay, you asked for it!

2 x Express x3550 M3 + 2 x Xeon 4C E5506 processors + 7 x 4Gb memory sticks + 2 x 73Gb disks + 1 x Qlogic raid card

1 x IBM storage DS3300 + 8 x 300Gb disks

2 x VM Ware standard 2 x SuSE 11

Also some Watchguard and Gigabit switch.

Re:Ask HN: $40k on physical hardware? or use the cloud? by flannell on Saturday October 02, 2010 @06:37PM (#1751542)
Formatting gone a bit wrong. So two servers with both cpu's, 7 sticks of 4gb ram and dual mirrored raid disks each.

Thanks for posting, I do love this community.