// elite hosting for nerds & geeks // no dorks // we have social
skills (mostly) //
Welcome to Who Flung Poo, LLC — a
bootstrapped hosting company built on enterprise gear that some
Fortune 500 suit monkey decided to replace with newer, shinier
suit-monkey-approved gear. We bought it for pennies on the
dollar, racked it up, cranked the fans to full scream, and now
it runs your stuff. Nerds and Geeks only — you know who you are.
If your idea of a great Saturday is arguing about tab vs. space
indentation, you're home. Pull up a chair.
Our infrastructure is built on
HP ProLiant DL380 G7s,
Dell PowerEdge R710s, and a
3PAR SAN that we keep around
purely as a monument to human suffering and poor purchasing
decisions — a reminder to everyone here that no matter how bad
your day gets, someone once paid six figures for that thing and
had to call HP support about it.
We light a candle for them quarterly.
The rest of the stack is powered by caffeine, spite, and the
deeply held belief that AWS pricing is a crime against the
working nerd.
// SERVICES — COMING SOON™ (no, really this time) //
GrepHost Pro™ — Shared
hosting for people who know what grep is
[ETA: 2 weeks... we said that in 2014 too]
RaidCloud VPS™ — Virtual
servers on actual hardware, not a VM inside a VM inside
a VM
[ETA: 2 weeks... depends on eBay shipping from a guy
in Ohio]
FiberFling™ — Dedicated
servers with actual fiber, not Comcast's copper feelings
[ETA: 2 weeks... at least that's what the telco's
ticket says]
PooVault Backup™ —
Offsite backups stored offsite, on a different shelf at
least
[ETA: 2 weeks... once we find the tape drive we lent
to Dave]
NerdMail™ — Email
hosting that doesn't read your mail to sell you things
[ETA: 2 weeks... Steve is still configuring
SpamAssassin, bless him]
3PAR Memorial Storage™ —
Available for tours only. Do not touch. Do not make eye
contact.
[ETA: never. it stays as a warning to others.]
A note on Dorks: We love you as
humans, but we can't have you here. You have the social
awareness of a segfault in production on a Friday afternoon. Go
fix your schema migrations, practice making eye contact with a
server rack, and come back when you're ready. We believe in you.
('We' is just your mom; she's proud of you even if the rest
of us know better.)