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I wonder how many Racks would there be after the total Cloud Exit from Basecamp. It is a nice way to think about scale.

The whole business that used to be 1/5 of the size 10 years ago were running on 100s of racks. And today it could be less than 10.



David wrote about that earlier. They are running on just about 8 racks in each DC (and they use 2).

That might exclude the new Pure Storage setup, though.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...


I think the Pure Storage is at best half a rack.

I dont think it is 8 rack per DC, it is 4 rack per DC.

>We currently spend about $60,000/month on eight dedicated racks between our two data centers

And they are only doing 64 Core. We will have 256 Zen 6 core next year. And it seems by next year, if they were willing to pay for density they could have fitted everything inside one rack per DC.

Exciting times.

Edit: Actually if Intel were to push 18A on server it would make performance / density even better.


>Actually if Intel were to push 18A on server it would make performance / density even better

Don't you end up needing pretty insane electric capacity not to mention cooling for that kind of density?




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