Let me tell you, when you show up in 2008 at Harwich Ferry Terminal, with a working class Dublin accent, and a heavy van full of equipment, and tell them you're going directly to Lodnon's financial district ... they take you aside.
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I was coming from our HQ in Holland, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_IRA_attacks_in_the_Netherlands … is a nice round up of some relevant and awful mutual Irish, Dutch, British history.
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All setup, the London site looked like this. Count the servers, all this work for just 11 boxes and two routers!https://www.flickr.com/photos/colmmacc/459707336/in/album-72157600078333497/ …
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I set up similar sites in New York, Los Angeles, and other places I've forgotten. Driving a van in Manhattan was fun! Not. Oh and Level3 left the combination lock codes inside the cages! I had to jimmy my camera in under the door one time, take a photo of the codes, then unlock.
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We could drop-ship supplies to the nearest CDW, things like screws and cables. Everyone knows US and EU have different power standards, but did you know that they have completely different cage-nut types? Things you learn!
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Our site in Luxembourg was one of our biggest, for advantageous tax reasons. I was even asked to trombone our Dutch office internet via the Luxembourg site so we could geo-ip as there. Oh and it was in an old unused telco switch room below a Pizzeria.https://www.flickr.com/photos/colmmacc/albums/72157594430427394 …
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Building our own transcoding facility was even more epic. Trucks and trucks of gear. Took about a year to build out ... and we were a 2 year old startup!https://www.flickr.com/photos/colmmacc/408009341/in/album-72157594565858594/ …
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It was around this time that EC2 first launched, and literally the day it went public, I asked our CTO if we could just use it instead. I worked out the numbers, and even at EC2's day one prices (which would now seem exorbitant) ... the time savings seemed worth it.
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The transcoding stuff I thought EC2 was perfect for, but I was told we couldn't use EC2 for some hand-waving reasons to do with MPAA security requirements. Sadness.
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Yeah, going by the talks we had about building cages, airgaps and buying shredders capable of doing HDDs then I'm not surprised fancy new cloud world wasn't acceptable.
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"It all ends up on BitTorrent anyway" never seemed to be an effective argument.
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As far as I recall, one of the concerns was content in a quality close to the RAW original. Less worry about what happened after compressing the hell out of it.
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