The time I literally dropped a server

This is a short story about one of the stupidest things I ever did in my professional life, namely, dropping a physical server from the top of the rack in a data center. Spring is my favorite season, summer is actually better, but in spring it's clear that winter is over and summer is coming up. In early 2014 I was driving from the Mendix office in Rotterdam to our co-location data center (DC for…