Reading this gave me PTSD flashbacks of sleeping on datacenter floors doing grueling build outs. I can (kind of) appreciate saving money by building these servers manually but the work is so terribly boring.

Plus, doesn't self building these boxes put the liability on the company rather than the manufacturer? If a server dies, you can't just rma it in this case, no? The ability to just box up and rma a server was something I loved as dcops.