We have been working up to this for quite some time. None of our storage, memory, CPU, or network matters if we have nothing to plug all of it into.
This could have been a long section dedicated to properly weighing the pros and cons of selecting a motherboard manufacturer for maximum stability. It turns out that most server vendors have already done all the hard work in that regard. In fact, a few vendors even disclose many details about the motherboard in their servers outside the model documentation. We can't really read hundreds of pages of documentation about every potential server we would like to consider, so what is the alternative?
No matter where we decide to purchase our server, vendors will not sell—or even present—incompatible choices. If we approached this chapter as intended, we already have a long list of parts, counts...
