Ha, I had to lol at:

It's 3 o'clock in the morning and you get a call...

"hello?"

"yes, your server has gone"

Well worth a listen, there's plenty of juicy stuff and insights on the whole process and decisions made that aren't mentioned in the blog post (yet, at least).

All the details you could want are in that podcast except the actual purchase price and there are enough clues to have a good guess.