Wolf of Williamsburg / The endeavors
Reality Check Network
The fifteen-person hosting company / 2010
The hosting years. A fifteen-person hosting company, racks of servers, and all the client mail that comes with them.
The stories below cover most of what I remember.
From the archive
- Seven Months of StartupsIn a fast stretch, I moved from Peek to a hosting company, then joined Shutterstock and kept Ops Dojo going on the side.
- Goodbye by EmailMy last day at Reality Check passed inside a chaotic weekend, so the proper goodbye came later.
- Miserable WeekA new Amsterdam data center, school, and a side company all landed in the same seven days.
- CTO, Written DownReality Check put my CTO responsibilities into a simple roles document, and I immediately used it to help somebody else.
- Can Work Count as Credits?I went back to Baker College and asked whether years as an IT director and CTO could help finish the degree I had left open.
- One of You Needs to Take ItI made the same Reality Check offer to two former Beatport teammates and tried to get one to bring the other.
- Please Take This JobReality Check needed an infrastructure engineer. I wanted somebody I trusted and was already tired of interviewing.
- Sick of Gluster ConfigsThe storage proof of concept worked. I wanted four nodes, real performance data, and then a break from staring at it.
- Two Days, Cool GraphsReality Check tried two-week sprints, small tasks, daily updates, and a chart that became interesting almost immediately.
- Sure, Just Call MeI had left Peek for a new CTO job. The old team still needed help with the network, and I still answered.
- Passion Now. Safe Later.Facebook, Shutterstock, and Reality Check offered three different futures. I chose the fifteen-person hosting company.