It has been exactly a week since our last servers moved out of Bothell. We have taken the past week as sort of a "breather" to stop the around-the-clock-frenzy that was our move, and get back to the around-the-clock "normal" that is involved in operating an Internet Datacenter. Move related work will continue next week, but it only involves decommissioning the old facility, and has zero operational impact on you, our valued clients.

Our last server moves were special, in that it was the last servers to leave Bothell, but also because of the client involved. We took pictures and would like to share them and the story here on the Support Blog, if for no other reason than to mark the historic occasion.

The final colocation client to move was our good friends "The Steves" from Cheatcodes.com... they were the last, (They are *always* late... for example they've been with us for over two years but still credit HostPro in their "about" section... what's up with that??) But as always they were entertaining. Steve Cook and Steve Jenkins showed up in Steve's Ferrari F40... not exactly the right tool for moving a cabinet full of servers, but thankfully the digital.forest cargo van was there driven by d.f's operations VP, Chuck Goolsbee.

Above: Steve Jenkins' 1991 Ferrari F40, not exactly the right tool for the job of moving servers, but what the heck.

Above: Interior of the d.f cargo van, loaded with the final servers and cabinet moving from Bothell to Seattle. Apologies for the blurry camera-phone shot.

Above: The ultimate accessory for any car, the digital.forest bumper sticker!

Above: Steve Cook racks a server in their cabinet.

Above: The entire executive staff of Cheatcodes.com engaged in server installation.

After an exciting drive through Seattle's notorious freeway traffic (including a detour over some rough railroad crossings in Seattle's Industrial area south of downtown... we don't know who was more nervous... Chuck for Steve's Ferrari, or Steve for the servers in the cargo van!) the unlikely pair of vehicles arrived at d.f's new facility with everything intact. Within a couple of hours Cheatcodes.com was back online and serving desperate gamers around the globe. The Steves with some knowledge and experience about these things, having found their fortune in the hosting business were impressed with our new facility. They rode off into the sunset, fire blazing from the Ferrari's tailpipes, while we set to the task of shutting down the network links that held Bothell and Seattle together into one seamless 'Local' area network. Few of our server moves were this entertaining, but we were happy to finish up our major migrations in style. Thanks to the Steves, and thanks to all our clients for "hanging in there" while this major move was undertaken. We'll post pictures from our Bothell decomissioning next week. See you then!