God bless HE Fremont. They are the unsung story of the Internet backbone. If one were to make a list of companies that at some point had a major fraction of the

God bless HE Fremont. They are the unsung story of the Internet backbone. If one were to make a list of companies that at some point had a major fraction of their hosted physical infrastructure at HE I suspect it would make people's jaws drop. It's been a huge blessing for a whole generation of startups to have a radically well-connected space that just about anyone can drop in equipment at multi-gig unmetered (albeit admittedly extremely constrained on power and cooling). It is honestly a part of what has made Silicon Valley great. Well, that and being able to cobble together a few replacement servers from Fry's components (RIP!) or schlep out to some ex-CTO's Sunnyvale garage in the middle of the night to offload some lightly used VA Linux 1U's... Even today, you can get 15A and a 42U cabinet to call your own with unmetered gigabit for $400/mo - and probably less if you ask nicely.