We are taking a very short break from server moves tonight, and will likely only move the streaming server "columbia". No rest though, as we'll continue to handle infrastructure (racks, shelving, etc) relocation this evening and all through the weekend.

Saturday night will be a busy one, with the following servers scheduled to relocate:

boysenberry, bark, sage, date, crabapple, woodpecker, tangerine, souari, and butternut.

These are all rackmount servers and require extra time to remove and setup. To date we have averaged about two hours to shut down, remove, relocate, and setup servers. The tower model boxes we've moved this past week go very fast, and we can move 20-30 a night. The rackmounts take so much longer so we can only move a handful at a time.

Sunday night will see the relocation of the former Exceedia/FMPhosting.net servers and the remaining d.f hosting servers (mostly older boxes supporting legacy CGI's such as Lasso 2, and Tango) We will post a named list at least 24 hours before their move.

Colocated servers will start moving Monday. Our customer service group has been contacting colo clients over the past few weeks to schedule these moves to within a day or two. We can be as flexible as possible, and hope you can too. If you are located close to us and wish to participate in your server move, that is great - In fact we encourage it. We have a cargo van specifically for the job if you would like us to perform the actual transport. If you can not be here, please be prepared to either login remotely at the appointed time, or provide us some method for gracefully shutting down your server(s). For example, with some versions of Solaris, and all versions of OS X, you can enable a "shutdown" button on the login screen. With FreeBSD, Linux or similar, you will need to shut it down yourself, or provide us with a login to do so ("sudo" permissions are fine, we don't need full root access - and you can create/delete an account for us just for the move.) With Windows or pre-X MacOS, you can leave the GUI running. If you logout, or use a lockout screen saver with Windows you will need to either login at the appointed time, or grant us access to shut down the server.

Please Note: We are willing to VERY flexible with regards to time of day for your move. If you want to move your server mid-day, or evenings (for example if your users are mostly in Europe or Asia... or you just don't want to be up at midnight) let us know. About the only times we would discourage are during the Seattle Area's notorious rush hours. The distance between our two facilities is about 24 miles (39 Kilometers), which between 4 PM and 6 PM could take well over an 90 minutes.