[cookerware]

curious who do you use as a host for 32 cores with ton of ram? I also favor this vertical scaling over splitting over multiple servers and replicating database with a load balancer sitting on top. Best to deal with one point of failure, if you need network concurrency up the ram and bandwidth. RAM should be easily upgradeable up to a descent double digit gig figure. For disk space and backup.

[jacquesm]

I bought the box and co-located it.

It's a run-of-the-mill HP, total costs including memory were under $10K.