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cperciva on Oct 18, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your hom...

"Horizontal" means a bunch of servers on a shelf. "Vertical" means a bunch of servers in a rack. :-)

wglb on Oct 18, 2009 [–]

Restaurant racks, cheap cases, multiple levels. No actual server rack. One pair of servers in fact has no case at all, sits on hollow core door.

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