The First of April
April 1, 2008 by Kevin Hazard, Web Hosting Evangelist in Evangelist's Corner, Fun Stuff
April 1st can be a crazy time around any office. The street smart crowd knows to be wary of “Free Donut” signs; thinks twice before borrowing a pen from a coworker; and answers every phone call with a veil of disbelief. It’s a conspiracy: everyone else on the planet is entitled to be crazy for the day.
Apparently, someone noticed the fear of impending doom in the eyes of a group of coworkers and decided to help them prepare for April Fools’ Day by providing an age-old tool from a conspiracy theorist’s toolbox … The tin foil hat. Apparently, the pranksters helpers ran into a problem: they didn’t have hat sizes for everyone. All hope was not lost, though. A communal hat was created over eight full cubes (with a perimeter of about 125′) to protect the inhabitants from the crazy lurking outside.
Todd and I have been accused of pranking helping from the moment we walked into the office this morning.
For good reason:
P.S. Irene has yet to retroactively grant her permission to us. 
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 am
Hahahaha, that’s awesome!
I called my favorite XM Radio Station yesterday to request a song. XM had each one of their stations answer as if they were the one just below them.
EG: XM81 answered as if they were XM80, etc.
Very funny stuff!
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:56 am
The still shot from the video is priceless and Clayton Spivey is a supastah!
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
Clayton’s a supastah who needs to speak up when he’s on camera.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 pm
GG guys
April 10th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I guess I’ll ask you myself - Do you see theplanet.com as a “bullet-proof” hoster?
April 15th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The term “bullet-proof hoster” is pretty general, so I’m not positive what you mean … The Planet hosts more than 22,000 customers on more than 48,000 servers in six wholly-owned data centers with an industry-leading 120+ Gbps of bandwidth capacity. We’ve got 24×7 technical support availability by phone, email, and live chat, and we have the resources to scale and meet any customer need.
If you are referring to DDoS attacks as “bullets,” our Network Operations Team is always on hand to track and mitigate attacks and work with our Tier-1 bandwidth providers to ensure that our customers get the best service possible at all times.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:07 am
i hope this is not an april fools. ahahah
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Sorry for being generic in my questioning… What I mean is - Let’s say someone rents a server with you guys, and uses it for spam or promoting terror. What then? Is it none of your business or do you take action? Because I’ve seen my fair share of buddies hosted/being hosted by theplanet.com, that’s why I’m wondering if the rumor is true.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 am
No problem at all. Our Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service strictly forbid terrorism, SPAM, and other illegal/abusive uses. If you encounter anyone sending SPAM from a server at The Planet or if you notice any illegal content hosted on a server here, send an email to our abuse department (abuse AT theplanet.com) with the domain name or IP address of the culprit, and the situation will be addressed immediately.
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