[leejoramo]

I ran a single Cobolt RaQ for years for a client. I think it was the RaQ 2. It was dedicated hosted at RackSpace back in the late 90s to about 2002

At the time, RackSpace was an excellent customer service company even for smaller accounts. To this day it was the best customer service I ever worked with.

When I decommissioned the RaQ, my RackSpace rep called me and asked if they could ship the system to me. Apparently, it was the last Colbalt system they had running by years.

[CursedSilicon]

Cobalt Networks was insanely popular in the web space, as far as I can tell it might have also been the first widespread "Linux appliance" (though a FreeBSD based one beat it to market in 1996 though was far less popular)

In hindsight it's any wonder Sun bought and trashed them. Cheap MIPS (later x86) web boxes running Linux probably absolutely ate into their margins in certain markets