I use to run an uptime server (http://uptime.openacs.org) and a tiny url server (http://myturl.com) on an old SparcStation pizza box until 2006, when the final hard drive I was going to buy for the best finally dead.
That's hilarious. I also ran a tiny URL server off my SS5. Nowadays that service would have been cloud based and cost $1k/mo in AWS costs for the same amount of users.