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by unsigner 5595 days ago
What does he mean by "bare metal"? I've heard of attempts by Oracle to run directly on hardware, without an OS; does the same exist with mySQL and nginx? Or is he simply meaning not-a-VM?
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rtomayko 5595 days ago
"Bare metal" as in "not-a-VM", yeah.
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mcantelon 5595 days ago
He prolly means not a VM.
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arthurschreiber 5595 days ago
nat-a-VM. As far as I know, GitHub was hosted on EngineYard VMs before they moved to rackspace.
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