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Re:High RAM servers - why so expensive? by johnrob on Sunday January 11, 2009 @05:59PM (#429778)
I'd rather have 10 of the cheap boxes, at 70/mo, than one 16GB at 800/mo.
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Re:High RAM servers - why so expensive? by bjclark on Sunday January 11, 2009 @06:25PM (#429811)
Which will work for some things, but not say, a database server that needs 16gigs of in memory tables.
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