Comments on: Technorati Struggles During Migration Prep http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/09/20/technorati-struggles-during-migration-prep/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: chuck goolsbee http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/09/20/technorati-struggles-during-migration-prep/comment-page-1/#comment-159 chuck goolsbee Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:40:14 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/09/20/technorati-struggles-during-migration-prep/#comment-159 Ironically, I'd bet 365 Main will have excellent uptime for the next few years. Technorati would do better to spread itself out over many facilities instead of just moving to another one. Every datacenter has a fairly equal risk of having SOME downtime. Equipment failure, or human error... Murphy will catch us all out at some point. As for migrations, we performed one in early 2005. Moved over 1000 servers from our old facility in Bothell WA, to a new one in Seattle. It went flawlessly. One server failed, but was replaced within hours. I'd never want to do it again, but I know that if you plan right, execute right, it can be done. --chuck <a href="http://chuck.goolsbee.org" rel="nofollow">http://chuck.goolsbee.org</a> Ironically, I’d bet 365 Main will have excellent uptime for the next few years. Technorati would do better to spread itself out over many facilities instead of just moving to another one. Every datacenter has a fairly equal risk of having SOME downtime. Equipment failure, or human error… Murphy will catch us all out at some point.

As for migrations, we performed one in early 2005. Moved over 1000 servers from our old facility in Bothell WA, to a new one in Seattle. It went flawlessly. One server failed, but was replaced within hours. I’d never want to do it again, but I know that if you plan right, execute right, it can be done.

–chuck
http://chuck.goolsbee.org

]]> By: SBL http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/09/20/technorati-struggles-during-migration-prep/comment-page-1/#comment-158 SBL Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:56:03 +0000 http://dev.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/09/20/technorati-struggles-during-migration-prep/#comment-158 What I find difficult to understand is why this move is being conducted during the end of quarter. Business-wise, this month is when the US Gov't budgets are due to be spent, and when most contract companies are making their purchases. Second item is if Technorati had any type of DR drill in place and practiced so as to anticipate such a move. What I find difficult to understand is why this move is being conducted during the end of quarter. Business-wise, this month is when the US Gov’t budgets are due to be spent, and when most contract companies are making their purchases.

Second item is if Technorati had any type of DR drill in place and practiced so as to anticipate such a move.

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