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I was just talking to a guy who oversaw a lot of Cox's infrastructure projects and I shared my metaphor for how I thought VinSolutions was built by Matt Watson... he started with a trailer in the trailer park and one day made it into a double-wide and then put a second story on it, but ran the plumbing on the outside of the trailer and continued to make this thing into a skyscraper with some movie set facade exterior... blah blah blah... he laughed and said I wasn't too far off.

Then he told me VinSolutions buys the largest instances of Dell servers in existence and actually needs more, but nobody makes them any larger.  And that is why Vin crashes at the end of the month.  It wasn't built to scale and it will take an enormous effort to remove the double-wide trailer at the bottom.