The perfect server for dedicated web hosting?
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After seeing hosting providers offer Atom based dedicated servers I started wondering how they are doing that? A pile of EeePCs? Unlikely.
Turns out there are a couple of companies offering blade servers with Atom blades – one is SERVER8 in Italy which seems to have a very smart approach – off the shelf Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX motherboards, including Atom-based motherboards can be used in a custom 6U case following the Open Blade spec.
SuperMicro offers 1U Atom-based servers and has announced an Atom-based blade server as well. There are do it yourself 1U rack mounted servers available. And I’m sure there are more similar offerings out there.
In general I guess server processors are the better fit for servers – but for this interesting niche market of people who want a dedicated server but don’t need a ton of performance (i.e. for things like hosting your own blog) these atom-servers could really be the perfect solution.
