hardware
One of our best servers at work was inherited from a previous engagement for x64 testing: it’s a dual Opteron 250 with 8 gigabytes of RAM. Even after a year of service, those are still decent specs. And it has a nice upgrade path, too: the Tyan Thunder K8W
server
One of the key differences between the original dot-com bubble and the Web 2.0 bubble we’re entering now is that our servers are a lot cheaper and a lot more powerful. Moore’s Law in action isn’t exactly news, but the new web is definitely powered by
hardware
The always entertaining Dan linked to something I hadn’t seen before – an archived page of the Google server hardware circa 1999: Here it is in all its, uh, glory. I don’t know what’s more impressive, the two dual Pentium II 300 servers, or the 90gb SCSI drive
c#
One of our production web servers keeps deadlocking the ASPNET_WP process, like so: aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 3588) was recycled because it was suspected to be in a deadlocked state. It did not send any responses for pending requests in the last 180 seconds. This is painful. It means