http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/ Engadget Comments for Intel's Atom gets used in... servers? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
I could run a Quake 2 Server with this. ]]>Jul 21st 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 22nd 2008 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/:-O]]>Jul 21st 2008 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
I know that my last company load tested a server with similar performance as the official web-retailer for several Grammy winning artists on a single box running a custom Java e-commerce application. Similar hardware handled millions of unique IPs a month and carried a load average well below 0.5. We pushed all traffic onto one server and left the other servers in hot-standby and left it like that for several weeks without issue.]]>Jul 21st 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
Would also be interesting replacement unit for my 2.something ghz p4 home server that gets hot enough to fry on. ]]>Jul 22nd 2008 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
You'd be a fool to run a server on an atom for that price.... PS, I bought the processor for £16 on ebay.... :)

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http://www.rapidswitch.com/DedicatedServers.aspx

They do have a decent value server which is £39/mo but upgrading it to 2GB RAM and two hard drives to get RAID-1 requires upgrade to £84/mo server so I'd still contend it's pretty decent value.]]>Jul 21st 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
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3. The departure of a performer from the stage.
4. Death.

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How much of a difference can one missed 'c' make?]]>Jul 21st 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
A VPS (Xen/Zones/UML) timeslice gives you something of roughly equivalent power, though without the pain of so many physical machines to manage. And it's a lot easier to use bigger slices of a beefy server than try to cluster these little things when you need to scale up.]]>Jul 21st 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/If it's just a pure web w/o anything hardly consuming cpu -- why not? I
For sure it's not for sourceforge.net or cnn.com, or whenever like that.


I do remember when it was ok to run a server with web+squid+samba+sendmail+nat+... on a 486sx25 box. It was ok.

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At that much a month surely it would be better just to BUY the computer and get decent unlimited web hosting?]]>Jul 21st 2008 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
Besides, for a EU based server, thats pretty cheap, especially for a dedicated. ]]>Jul 21st 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/
Less power, and less heat means less up keep.

Makes sense that these would make perfect servers.]]>Jul 21st 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Jul 21st 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://kylehasegawa.com/content/building-the-perfect-soho-firewall-router
and I'll say it again. Atom are perfect for routers.]]>Jan 24th 2009 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Servers need Ram a lot not much CPU.
Linux will cache the data in the memory and it will be pretty much fast for most usage of webservers, such as apache+mysql + rails/php etc....

and, im sure engadget would run fine on the 2GB ram server.

]]>Jul 22nd 2008 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/intels-atom-gets-used-in-servers/Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/data-centers-are-becoming-big-polluters-study-finds/

When you pay for virtual server hosting - the physical box is probably so overladen you are getting less grunt than the atom anyway!]]>Jul 23rd 2008 7:19PM