Moving To A New Datacenter
I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day moving my servers into the 365 Main datacenter in El Segundo.
This is not really that different than moving into a new office: shut down the server, carry it into the car, drive to the new place, install the server, fire it up; repeat until all servers are moved.
From a virtual perspective however, it is something like moving 150 pets: get each one ready to go, get each individually situated after the move, do some handholding with each of their owners, keep the barking to a minimum...
There is not very much physical work, yet somehow I was exhausted! Maybe it has to do with the tension of getting each website back up as quickly as possible (some didn't go down at all), requiring logistics not unlike a military operation -- because some businesses depend entirely on their website for survival... Dec 25 is the only day those businesses can be "closed"...
Anyway, it's done, everyone is up and running in the new place with more and faster bandwidth than before -- gotta keep up with all those people getting fiber-optic internet connections!