Cobalt Qube
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Cobalt Qube
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The Cobalt Qube was an early server appliance that enabled enthusiasts to host multiple websites, as shared by a user who built a small hosting company using these devices in the late 90s.
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rekttrader
about 2 months ago
I built a little hosting company atop these boxes, my neighborhood was one of the first to get symmetric DSL and I could get 10 static IPs. Http 1.1 came out the year before and was upgraded to allow name based virtual hosting… I had over 40 websites running from my childhood bedroom. I bought my first qube in late 98 from an PC mall catalog and kept buying them after they moved to the raq box before they eventually sold to Sun. Good times.
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