For the curious, Slashdot (as of January 2001) runs on eight machines: six webservers (each is Pentium III/600, 1GB RAM, 9GB hard drive), one NFS server (dual PIII/600, 2GB RAM, 2 x 9GB hard drive), and one database server (quad Xeon/550, 2GB RAM, 6 x 9GB hard drive). However, this is certainly overkill for most sites (and possibly even overkill for Slashdot).