Server Porn

wldlyinaccurate · on Oct 1, 2012

Love the pics but do the URL and page title really need to contain the word "porn"? It makes it a little embarrassing to open at work and some corporate filters will even block the page.

anonymous · on Oct 1, 2012

TimJRobinson · on Oct 1, 2012

Love the pics, I'd like to see more stats on how much HDD space / ram / CPU speed each server in each pic is.

Floopsy · on Oct 1, 2012

That's a great server rack.

nlh · on Oct 1, 2012

Thanks for posting. This is the sort of fun, lighthearted stuff that geeks around the world can appreciate.

And if you guys like this, there's a whole subreddit devoted to this (in fact, as you'll see from the top, there's a whole network of SFW "porn" subreddits for everything from astronomy to history pictures to natural disasters:

http://www.reddit.com/r/serverporn

waterlesscloud · on Oct 1, 2012

That WOW server is pretty cool. Was it labeled that elaborately in production, or is that for display purposes?

ericcholis · on Oct 1, 2012

Display purposes, they auctioned them off for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital after they were decommissioned. I think they raised about $300k.

shaunpud · on Oct 1, 2012

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/3710218

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/charity-auction/

Hortinstein · on Oct 1, 2012

i would love some higher res pics if anyone has seen any?

APuschilov · on Oct 1, 2012

if that's where we're going here, i might as well post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDScp1JCFHM

shaunpud · on Oct 1, 2012

At least it's not a floppy!

taligent · on Oct 1, 2012

Not to draw attention away from their servers which are damn nice. This is what I call server porn:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/oracle_exadata_x3_sy...

40TB of data in RAM, 220TB on Flash. 1.5 million IOPS.

dcpn · on Oct 1, 2012

anoother · on Oct 1, 2012

Please ignore parent, this is definitely SFW.

babarock · on Oct 1, 2012

Unfortunately, that's not what the corporate filter I'm stuck behind says.