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ServerBeach hosted YouTube for 2 years. They started with a single server and grew to over 200 servers in a year’s time span. I managed the YouTube account and what an adventure it was. It was almost like having a house that can only host 150 guests and 1000 show up and they are such cool people that you don’t want to tell them no. So you let the party grow and hope for the best. ServerBeach is built on automation and are not accustomed to hosting customers with over 200 servers and pushing petabytes of bandwidth a month. We did what we could and as much as we loved YouTube, it wasn’t always so easy. After the Google acquisition, naturally, YouTube was moving on to bigger and better things and it was time for them to outgrow ServerBeach. So upon their departure, we made a farewell video for YouTube. Steve Chen, founder of YouTube, loved it:

In all seriousness, we would love to host your team out here in California. I’m sure my credit card limit can pay for it. After all, I have ServerBeach and v40.youtube.com to thank for that high monthly limit. Would you guys be interested in spending a weekend out here? Angela, your drinks, especially, will be on the house.