
When Basecamp launched in February of 2004, we ran on a single shared Linux server at Tilted. I don’t fully remember the CPU spec, but I do remember that we had the same 256MB of RAM available. And I believe the monthly cost for this princely server was around $349. It was not only fast enough to run Rails and Basecamp, but good enough to do so on its own for more than a year while we built a business that could pay the salaries of four.