Back in 2005 I used to work as a systems admin on a relatively high traffic real estate web site. Back at the time, cloud was not a thing, so we had a rented ra

Back in 2005 I used to work as a systems admin on a relatively high traffic real estate web site. Back at the time, cloud was not a thing, so we had a rented rack in a colo facility and stuffed it full of gear. I remember very well, just how much work and ingenuity it took to keep this thing running, despite the best efforts of our dev team.