How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Microprocessors

I expected more from you, DreamHost. This blog reads like a first-time DIYPC build retrospective.

> The most common instruction set you will find in a data center is x86-64...Almost all consumer laptop, desktop, and enterprise servers are made using processors based on x86-64. Because of this, we decided to use a processor based on x86-64.

> To pick the processor we wanted to use, we needed to take into consideration a few other factors. But… more on that in another post coming soon!