Stephen Gutknecht will make this presentation:
"-- Inexpensive. SATA over SCSI, commodity DDR2 RAM (not FB), desktop CPU
-- our first experience with remote motherboard management and IPMI solution
-- Small size and weight. Our goal was to have a server we could ship via
UPS or Fedex overnight to a co-location center for under $120.
-- We used a 14" case, crammed 2 desktop hard drives, 8gb of RAM, quadcore
-- The "RAM sweet point" - 8GB of RAM at the time in late-2006 / early
2006. We wanted to be able to take advantage of Xen and we often run
databases where more RAM is preference over fast hard drives.
-- Have a total of 7 of these systems in production, some have been in
service for 18 months, some only 6 months.
-- Wounds, mistakes, bad experiences, compromises