Today is a sad day.  Today marks the end of an era for me, an era of rack-mount computers, data centers, nerdom, and fantisticism.  Nearly 18 months ago, some friends and I installed a 1U rack-mount in a Seattle data center.  I had purchased the machine thinking my social network startup, Cellarspot, would create enough traffic to require a monster machine.

After 18 month of spending $97 each month, not to mention an up-front cost of $2,800, my machine has been unracked and is now waiting to be picked up and sold off, never to be in my life ever again.  The pinnacle of my nerdom was installing that baby, and today I feel slightly empty.  However, I’m quite excited to be chipping away at my credit card bill.  And to be totally honest, purchasing a server, power, and a fire hose was insane overkill and an entirely uneconomic hosting decision.

I tried to sell services such as game server hosting, web hosting, etc, but I didn’t get any bites.  I will step foot in more data centers as time goes on, and I will have another rack mount at some point.  Goodbye, Dell PowerEdge 1950.  I will see you, or at least your sisters, brothers, and cousins, again.

With love,

Alex