The Backdrop In early 2024 a user decided that they /really/liked my Blackbox API. They and many others decided to blow my little cluster out of the water and ship an astonishing 3 Billion requests in a single month.

The First Iteration It all started, initially, with a few ServeTheHome YouTube videos. They had been talking about the power of MiniPCs and how many of the cheaper models you could find on the likes of eBay were quite powerful.

A Fresh Start Over a decade ago I colocated my first servers. It was a Dell PowerEdge 2950 RII, and it was a very good learning tool for an 18-year-old me.