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danjayh
I wonder what kind of bandwidth they're getting with their car (suv?) full of servers. More seriously, though, wouldn't something like camelcamelcamel be a perfect candidate for AWS or something similar, thereby preventing headaches like physically toting servers hundreds of miles?
L1quid
Last I checked, just one AWS database instance would cost us $20k+/year if we pre-paid for a reserved instance, and that doesn't include all the usage-based fees (storage, iops).

And it's only a headache if you dislike spending two days in the car / colo / car / colo.

[dead] ByteCollective
A lot of furious camelx3 customers right now. How in the world will they be promptly notified of amazon price drops!?

And why the hell doesn't amazon acquire camelx3 already?

L1quid
We did indeed live tweet it. Just wanted to keep our users aware of our movements, and avoid the "camel has died forever" fears.