>> A fast modern 16 core machine with 128 gig of ram can meet a lot of needs.
> True, as long as you don't care about redundancy or scalability or wasting money because you actually only use 4GB of RAM and barely any CPU.
Redundancy: you want two fast machines. More if you want them in multiple locations, but we still see a lot of people with presence only in us-east.
Scalability: You can go to 96-core per socket on commodity x86 servers now; 16 -> 96 is a lot of room to scale. You can also go up to I think 3TB per socket on Epyc Genoa.
> True, as long as you don't care about redundancy or scalability or wasting money because you actually only use 4GB of RAM and barely any CPU.
Redundancy: you want two fast machines. More if you want them in multiple locations, but we still see a lot of people with presence only in us-east.
Scalability: You can go to 96-core per socket on commodity x86 servers now; 16 -> 96 is a lot of room to scale. You can also go up to I think 3TB per socket on Epyc Genoa.