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Does anyone remember the Cobalt Qube ?
Hello,
Does anyone (being old enough) to remember the Cobalt Qube (1998-2002), an all in one , ready to use web server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube
This was at the time, I was beginning to consider a dedicated server (didn't know such thing existed) to replace my shared hosting, and I was so enthusiast at the idea of getting such server on my newly DSL connection ( 512kb down, 128kb up) : 
(never happened)
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This thing looks like a cooler.
Can it serve ice cold Coca Cola?
I remember it. I wanted one, but I was in high school and had no real need for it.
In theory it could, as there was actually a kidnapped Vietnamese child inside each one handling the 'automation'.
The best it could do was Cobalt Qola.
I never had one of these, but had many of the various RaQ servers.
RaQ XTR was a real joy.
Yeah, I was swimming with those back in the day.
Loved it and hated 'em at the same time. Just like women.
My first stint as a support tech for a host involved setting up a RaQ... top of the line at that time.. early 1998-2000...
The system and ui was slick for that era!
Oh and these servers were hosted at Rackspace.. and at that time I thought it was a custom server from Rackspace...
Yes, had both a Qube and a couple of Raqs. I liked them but had the feeling they were a poor mans Sun (which I very much preferred). Still, friends of mine (and myself a bit supporting them) ran a local ISP and some hosting largely based on Raqs.
Imagine if Apple bought them out and transitioned to their usual nomenclature...
Never used the cube but I've a Cobalt RaQ 4.
@SteveMC Did you ever have their most popular offering? I think it was called the Nice RaQ.