Re:Oxide builds servers as they should be [audio]
by walrus01 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:03PM
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you are correct, margins are very thin in hosting company business and the absolute most server performance/number of nodes for the least money is very important.
have been on the manufacturing side of this before.
bulk x86-64 servers such as you could buy from the vendors you meet at the computex taipei are a big part of it.
things along the same general idea as the supermicro that is 2U high and has four discrete nodes in it, but cheaper.
long/narrow motherboards with dual socket xeons
and other similar stuff...
if the price for this is not market competitive with that, or just a bunch of 1U commodity dual socket servers, the only people buying it will be enterprise/specialty end user and not hosting operations.
have been on the manufacturing side of this before.
bulk x86-64 servers such as you could buy from the vendors you meet at the computex taipei are a big part of it.
things along the same general idea as the supermicro that is 2U high and has four discrete nodes in it, but cheaper.
long/narrow motherboards with dual socket xeons
and other similar stuff...
if the price for this is not market competitive with that, or just a bunch of 1U commodity dual socket servers, the only people buying it will be enterprise/specialty end user and not hosting operations.