from http://blog.tabini.ca/2009/11/13/going-virtual/:
Every now and then, therefore, it happens that the fine folks at ServerBeach, who have hosted our systems for many years now, will drop us an e-mail to let us know that one or more of our machines has reached its End of Life and making us a special offer for switching to a newer server—one that won’t send them scrambling for parts when it goes belly-up.
We have tried this one more than one occasion; the machine the customer was hosted on was EOL, spare parts were becoming scarce, and in any event they’d outgrown their server.
The nicest response we’ve ever gotten to this was FUCK. YOU.
We still have a Sun v100 w/ Solaris 7 running an app last updated in 2002 live and in production. We told the customer, look, number one an iPhone has more CPU and number two, we can’t guarantee any sort of rapid turnaround as long as you stick with that.
We were told any downtime will result in a law suit.
I love my job.
