Four Basic Questions
Selecting hardware can be as simple as answering four basic hardware architecture questions:
How many CPUs?
How much memory?
How much disk space?
What disk configuration?
While this may seem like a gross oversimplification, the CPU count alone is generally sufficient to select among the pertinent hardware architectures available.
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