Brian Tiemann explains in excruciating detail.

mu.nu has moved servers three times over the past three years, from the original baby Celeron box, to a nice Athlon, to a dual Xeon, to the current pair of dual-core Pentium D's.

What probably nobody remembers is that the server itself moved once, as well.

Back in the early days, our hosting company, whose name is lost in the mists of time, was bought out by another hosting company. And lo, they decided to transfer all their servers to the new owner's data centre. Unlike Managed.com, though, they actually got it right: They chartered a 737, called in every vaguely technical person they knew, hoiked all the (carefully labelled) servers out of the racks and into a truck, zoomed off to the airport, flew them down to Florida, and had them all plugged in and running again in less than 12 hours. Well, at least my server was up and running in less than 12 hours, which is what counts.

Managed.com pulled the drives out of the old servers and stuck them in new machines. As recipes for disaster go, that's a simmer for three hours, feeds 24 starving grizzlies, gold-plate special.

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