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Blowing up old servers in the parking lot

2003-11-11

In this part of England the natives make a habit of buying fireworks and setting them off for most of November. This culminates on 'bonfire night', when things get burned, fireworks exploded etc.

To celebrate one of our home shopping products being shut down (natural causes - it was really old), last week some of the tech team at Tesco.com blew a server to high hell by filling it with large fireworks and then setting them off.

It was truly spectacular, and extremely noisy. So noisy, in fact, that it attracted the attention of a security guard who came over to chase us off.

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