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How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Microprocessors (dreamhost.com)
12 points by randoramax on Oct 1, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I expected more from you, DreamHost. This blog reads like a first-time DIYPC build retrospective.

> The most common instruction set you will find in a data center is x86-64...Almost all consumer laptop, desktop, and enterprise servers are made using processors based on x86-64. Because of this, we decided to use a processor based on x86-64.

> To pick the processor we wanted to use, we needed to take into consideration a few other factors. But… more on that in another post coming soon!




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