I’m a sysadmin, so staying up late most nights is kind of a personality trait. As a consequence, I sometimes don’t know what day it is, but I’ve usually got a handle on the month and year. Here at the Hosting company for Creative Anachronisms we like to think we can deal with just about any such oddball request customers throw at us, but we have limits (asymptotic at times).

• One customer, when answering our technical spec form for a new dedicated server, requested that we install a telnet daemon (locking it down of course, for security y’know)
• Another recent request asked for IP-based vhosting – customer is presumably migrating their app from an old Netscape iPlanet webserver or something equally horrid, they wouldn’t say
• A contract we’ve been chasing recently saw their tech guy raise the concern that Ping Of Death might cause problems if we allow ICMP through the firewall… we’re going to try to sell them our ping of death protection service, maybe see if they’re interested in teardrop as well