can include networking option too if you like ;)

http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire15k/

Originally posted by clockwork
http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire15k/

Wow, that could hold 1000s of sites.

Price: $1,529,110.00 $2,425,470.00 $3,235,430.00 :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

I dunno... personally I like SGI http://www.sgi.com/origin/3000/

I would buy one of those F'off big Cray computers.


... Dang knows how to use one :confused:

*notices no one has mentioned x86 servers yet*

I'm not sure if I'd know how to work one of them Sun machines. I'd rather have a bunch of lesser-spec servers working together as a redundant cluster so there's no single point of failure.

Originally posted by ToastyX
I'm not sure if I'd know how to work one of them Sun machines. I'd rather have a bunch of lesser-spec servers working together as a redundant cluster so there's no single point of failure.

That's why those sun boxes have 3 failover power supplies, and everything else too.

You don't pay $1m and get something that'll die easily.
For that you get a $99/month server, of course.

Originally posted by clockwork
http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire15k/

I was going to say the same thing. The only trick would be - how much would the CPanel developers charge to port WHM and CPanel to it? :-)

Take care,

Brian

If you can afford one of those, you aren't going to be using CPanel, you'll be using your own proprietary software

Originally posted by IT Hosting
If you can afford one of those, you aren't going to be using CPanel, you'll be using your own proprietary software

If you can afford one of those, you wont be using your own proprietary software, you'll be retired ;)

Those are pretty darn nice, but I think if we are talking realistically here, my ideal server would be a Dell 1650 or 2650 totally maxed out with ram and raid5 drives.

Actually, the ideal setup would be to have a load balancer between two of the above machines and have them be mirrored. That would be nice. :cool:

I would buy an Amstrad Mega PC!

Originally posted by FDrive


If you can afford one of those, you wont be using your own proprietary software, you'll be retired ;)
:laugh: :D :agree:

I would want dual AMD athlon 2100. With 4GB memory. 15k rpm scsi 72GB hard drive, with raid 1. Extreme cooling system etc etc.

Dual Alpha 21264 833Mhz w/ 4MB of DDR Cache
2GB SDRAM
3 Seagate 18GB Ultra160 w/ 16MB Cache
Adaptec Ultra160 64Bit PCI
3com 10/100/1000 64Bit PCI NIC
Sony AIT3 100GB Tape Drive

I wish, although Aspen Systems sells 'em... I wonder how much. ;)

clockwork beet me to it - IF - Money is No Object - Sun it is !!

You'll have to see a Sun personal station in action on any LAN to understand, but think Ferrari to get close :)

Wow.. Thanks for all your comments, now I have more options to consider... :)

I still say the cray

http://www.cray.com

An rs6000, 126,000 instances of linux.

About the size of half of the size of a bedroom.

I'd like cluster then, with 256 nodes (should be enough for me), each node has:
- Dual 1.4 Athlons
- 4x78 GB IBM Ultra SCSI, in raid 0
- 2 GB DDR RAM
- FreeBSD 4.6
..and all of them connected via gigabit ethernet..

:cartman:

If money no object - why not connect them by Fiber or develope some kind of Multiterrabit connection :P

Originally posted by The Laughing Cow
If money no object - why not connect them by Fiber or develope some kind of Multiterrabit connection :P

even 100mbps is enough for clusters - you're not going to use all. gigabit is more then enough, so I think there is no need to connect them via fiber optic or develop your own milti-super-fiber-optic (I would spend money for more nodes in cluster then spend money on developing my own fiber optic).

Originally posted by The Laughing Cow
I would buy one of those F'off big Cray computers.


... Dang knows how to use one :confused:

http://www.psc.edu/machines/cray/t3e/t3e.html
;)

NEC SX Based SuperComputer
35.66Tflops

BTW: It's the world's fastest supercomputer.

http://www.top500.org/top5/1/

Actually - If money were no object, I'd pack up my stuff, move my family to Kauai, Hawaii. (Which is where we're going to live in a few years anyway.)

Then, I'd continue to buy/rent x86 servers, run CPanel and work from the beach with my Laptop and a wireless net connection. :-)

Take care,

Brian