[bcaxis]

> I like the power that we see with cheap commodity hardware, but we mustn't forget that it's crap.

Google grew up (early days) using cheap white box consumer PCs while "best practice" was expensive server boxes.

It's a tried and true method of budget hosting.

The mini PC world is exploding and they make for a solid low cost, low power server platform.

It also makes having hot and cold spares cheap and easy.