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		ra on Sept 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linode announces new datacenter location, Japan >Since, one rack today can be stuffed with 90 servers each up to 20x more powerful than what was around in 2005 90 servers in a rack? Do you mean VPS? if not please could you elaborate?

shimon_e on Sept 20, 2011 [–]

Using half depth motherboards a rack is able to support 90 servers. Some providers like OVH in Europe focus on only building such racks.

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