Expecting a few people to bite on the special deal for Tabulas, I went ahead and ordered another server. The specs?

Hewlett-Packard P4 2.0 Ghz, 2-80gig HD, 1.5-gig RAM.

Yeah, it's pretty puny. But I'm slowly working my way up. Before that, I was running 2 1.3-Ghz Celerons and 1 1.7Ghz-Celeron. I'm going to try to phase out my 1.3-Ghz Celerons as I get better hardware to manage the various services I run.

This is my first 'true' server; the others were desktop towers being used as servers; this is an actual 1U server.

Now the funny story is the company I rent servers from had to call to confirm my order. I had to give them all sorts of random information ... until I got caught up on my address. I gave them both my current dorm address and my home address, and both failed. So I was asked them, "Well, how can I confirm it?"

The guy goes, "Give me a minute. Let me transfer you to Customer Service. They can change your address, then you can come back and confirm your order."

Seems kind of self-defeating, no?