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Sorry for the the low res pic but we ran millions of sites on these things [1]. Much cheaper than any hosting we could find. It was a nice time before the real
by tluyben2 9y ago
Sorry for the the low res pic but we ran millions of sites on these things [1]. Much cheaper than any hosting we could find.
It was a nice time before the real race to the bottom. We hardly had downtime compared to the massive commercial hosters because we lived in the server cages those days.
I believe much of my tinitus comes from spending too much time there.
[1] https://picturepush.com/+154WU https://picturepush.com/+154WU
- iagovar 9y agoWhat is that? Servers? I may be blind but I don't what those are.
- tonyarkles 9y agoMy guess, having done some things like that at the time, is a motherboard, hard drive, and power supply strapped to a steel tray with no enclosure at all. The sides look like they may be plywood or 2x4s. Noisy and fragile, but easy to work on and dirt cheap to put together.
- tluyben2 9y agoYep! Exactly that!