Recent content by qhead

What really blows my mind is that iPhone has more processing power than the computers that were used to send man to the moon. And we use that power to throw birds to pigs.

Yes, you are right about ECC. Especially when these servers will also have small portion dedicated to run Redis which is in-memory database and bitrot would be very, very unwanted. We are going with Ubuntu Server just because it's one of the most popular Linux distros out there, it's...

Can you explain more specifically why consumer-grade parts are so bad? What I have read about servers, it isn't so much about components but the support you get if something breaks. Of course you don't want to buy the cheapest motherboard you can find but I fail to see the difference if you get...

I'm looking to build few cheap 4U coloservers. It's for a startup so unfortunately they don't have lots of cash laying around. Later when cashflow gets better these will become dev servers and they will buy so called real servers for production. Servers will be mainly used for webserver with...