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A single box?! Do we know its specs?
by skolemtotem 8y ago
A single box?! Do we know its specs?
- swarnie_ 8y agoPentium II with 64mb of Ram is my assumption.
- mabbo 8y agoIf it runs on a PII, but provides as much value as it does to all of us, I call it a very successful product.
- sillysaurus3 8y agoAs of 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006 FreeBSD 10.1 Nginx 1.7.10 Racket 6.1.1 with some HN and FreeBSD specific patches. 2x 3GHz Intel Xeon-IvyBridge (E5-2690-V2-DecaCore) 8x16GB Kingston 16GB DDR3 2Rx4 SuperMicro X9DRI-LN4F+_R1.2A Adaptec 71605 9x 1000GB Western Digital WD RE4 2x 200GB Smart XceedIOPS SSD
- a012 8y agoThis "single box" has a lot of computing units as on AWS EC2.
- nostrademons 8y agoThat should tell you a lot about the price you pay for using AWS.
- rhizome 8y agoThe figure I saw around maybe 2015 was that AWS (maybe Heroku) is 10x more expensive and bare metal is 10x more efficient/faster, lending a 100x difference in price-performance. Both factors are probably larger nowadays.
- some_account 8y agoIt's the convenience and the enormous ecosystem of plug and play services that make AWS do good for point and click building architectures. You can do all of it locally (except multi zone and multi region reliability) but it would take a lot of configuration, skills and you wouldn't have the same Gui for everything. AWS is not cheap but companies don't care, because without it, you have to pay to find experts and keep them happy, which is a lot harder.
- aaronblohowiak 8y agoThose figures are not in line with my understanding.
- rhizome 8y agoI'll try to find the article, I think it might have been Bitnami or Joyent who ran it. Some older discussion on the topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165095
- sctb 8y agoA minor upgrade these days: FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz