Please Note: This posting to our Support Blog has no critical information concerning scheduled maintenance or datacenter expansion... it is just a bit of fun. Some geeky amusement for the technically-minded among our valued clients.

Uptime is an important metric. Here at digital.forest we know that uptime is the basis of our business. Everything is focused on uptime first, with all else coming next in line. When you run Internet-connected servers, as most of our clients do, the uptime of those servers can become an obsession, as this story will demonstrate. Our long-time clients Cheatcodes.com take their fun as seriously as they take their uptime. For example...

Through the normal course of business over the past several years since they moved their servers from our old facility in Bothell to our facility in Seattle, Cheatcodes.com has rebooted all of their servers except one. That server has been up continuously since that day in March 2005. Cheatcodes.com has outgrown their old rack and recently consolidated all of their servers into a new cabinet in digital.forest's Datacenter 1. But they REALLY wanted to maintain that unbroken streak of uptime for that server. Being the fun geeks that they are, Steve & Steve came prepared to move that server, while it stayed running. With dual power supplies, and four power cords, one of which was a long extension cord from from Steve J's garage, they carefully planned and executed moving their server "hot"...

Move complete, 100% Uptime maintained: 945 days and counting.

Congratulations to Steve & Steve of Cheatcodes.com, and thanks, as always, for the entertaining diversions!