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		johnrob on Jan 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High RAM servers - why so expensive? I'd rather have 10 of the cheap boxes, at 70/mo, than one 16GB at 800/mo.

bjclark on Jan 11, 2009 [–]

Which will work for some things, but not say, a database server that needs 16gigs of in memory tables.

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