ServeTheHome Turns 17 The Places You Will Go

Every year, on June 8, we celebrate ServeTheHome’s birthday. To say the last year has seen an accelerated change would be an understatement for sure. Let us take a quick recap of the last year.

ServeTheHome Turns 17 The Places You Will Go

Hands-down, I think the coolest place/ thing we did in the last year was going to Latvia and getting to show MikroTik’s headquarters and manufacturing facilities. There are a few trips when we do them that I think “I would never have been here without STH” but after riding in a car a few hours outside of Riga, it is hard to say that this one might be the most outlandish (yet.)

You can contrast that with the other side, including touring Equinix SV1 where I probably had the exact opposite reaction, more like “how have I never been here?”

Here is a fun one. We did the Lambda AI Cluster at Cologix last summer, only a few minutes away from where I lived in Ohio as a kid (well one of the places I lived.)

During that trip, I told Sam I wanted to go to a restaurant I had not been to in 30 years, and somehow we ended up eating in the buggy. I spent 30 years never having been back to the town, so it was quite a trip down memory lane thanks to STH.

Aside from all of the interesting places STH went last year (I did 98 flights by year’s end in 2025), the biggest change was clearly the AI side. Not only is the hardware, and what makes “good” or “relevant” hardware changing, but the shift is going far beyond that. Taking AI from a fun curiosity to a big productivity booster in such a short time has been nothing short of amazing.

A real challenge, however, is that it has had a major impact on publishing. Both with the impacts of AI summaries and just how fast we need to churn content. One of the big reasons for bringing Ryan onboard was simply because the pace of our testing and processes needs to greatly increase. The 8x GB10 video is a great example of why. That video was re-shot after multiple re-testing rounds because every time we had benchmarked a set of models, a new set would come out. Our production process was too slow, so I am spending a lot of time figuring out how to increase STH’s process speed.

Final Words

It is crazy to think that in a year, STH will be 18, or it would be an adult if it were a person. I am hoping that in this next year, we get to show you some really amazing systems, technology, and places with STH. Seventeen years ago, STH started as just a blog about using RAID controllers with 2.5″ enterprise hard drives in non-traditional servers, and trying to share that experience. Since then, it has taken us all over. Indeed, today, I started in Taiwan and landed in San Francisco at 6AM on the same day, albeit after being awake for 20+ hours.

Again, thank you to the entire STH community for making this possible. Stay tuned later this month for the Letter from the Editor to see how the team is growing, what we are doing behind the scenes, and what the future holds.