Casey Liss

This is why I can do things like set up an entire data center worth of Mac menus without ever telling you guys.

The only person who knew about all this stuff as it was happening, I told underscore.

Because, you know, that was we kept it private.

We both had a lot of fun, like, you know, anticipating like when you guys would finally find out about it.

But yeah, and it's, you know, like when I bought the restaurant, I didn't tell anybody on the Internet because it's like, well, this is and it's only because like, oh, this is going to make for a fun ATP when I finally spring it on you guys live.

Like when John quit his job.

Yeah, so this was a question posed on the Overcast Reddit.

For people who kind of aren't in this world or maybe are in a different part of this very large world, it might have seemed ridiculous that I would have operated Tumblr for its first four years and never had been in a data center before.

And the reason why is because during those four years, 2006 to 2010, Tumblr didn't have its own data center.

What we did was, this was very early in AWS.

EC2 didn't exist for at least the very beginning of that.

But what we had instead, what people did back before compute instances, which used to be called VPSs or virtual private servers, what we all did before VPSs

was dedicated servers.

So what this is, is now in the business, I believe they now call this bare metal servers.

You go to a hosting company on the internet and you just lease a server, you know, through their web interface or their salespeople or whatever.

And you have...

A server allocated to you that you never see.

You never deal with the physicality of it.

They deal with it.

And you have to do things like put in a RAID controller and make sure you have multiple disks.