I don't know about you, but I would rather have whatever server that dagi has... His was fast.
Well first off his wasn't a server he said it's his desktop pc. As I stated earlier the server I'm running is rather old 2.66Ghz from 2009 whereas dagi probably has a 4Ghz modern i5 or something
While it is entirely possible to get a faster cpu in a server it's often not needed as in general servers are meant for parallel operations not intense single threaded work.
All while Abe was doing it's thing the server also compiled a new alt coin daemon synced with it's network, built an entire abe.sqlite for the alt coin, is now running as an explorer for said alt.
The biggest factor in my choice of processor is price however