I forgot about that! Glad you came out ok in The Planet explosion, I remember that, it was insane. Fun fact: IBM now owns The Planet’s assets via Softlayer.
This may be a hint that you don't want to colocate where I stuff my machines ;)
EV1 was pretty reliable right up to the point that it wasn't. Taught me some good lessons about multi-DC availability. Some of which were recently re-learned by the folks at OVH.