# Moving Datacenters **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 30, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330 "2009-03-30T11:17:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/1 "2009-03-30T11:17:17Z")
Just wondering if you guys used anyone to move your shit from one place to another…? ---
**Author:** ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/2 "2009-03-30T11:17:56Z")
We had some weird mexican guys come in. They moved EVERYTHING but did none of the disconnect, hook up work. ---
**Author:** ![brent\_strong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brent_strong/32/7203_2.png) [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/3 "2009-03-30T11:21:52Z")
We have one coming up…not looking forward to it at all. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/4 "2009-03-30T11:26:31Z")
I moved the most critical server at my old job in the back of my old Ranger. Everything else went via some “Joe Bob’s moving company” who I wouldn’t have trusted moving the shit in my garage, much less my IT company. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/5 "2009-03-30T11:52:33Z")
I have actually done all the stuff properly for a company who hired me on the side. Me and a friend went in, they paid us for the travel, the boxes and packing materials and such. We ended up boxing up 12 servers, few network devices, cables, etc. and moved them and connected to what they needed. Just was a few cabinets in the Frontier datacenter in Rochester. Hardest part for the company was to have us get access to the datacenter. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/6 "2009-03-30T12:08:49Z")
Make sure they have the proper insurance if you use someone… A lot of regular moving companies can’t/won’t touch high end IT stuff. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/7 "2009-03-30T12:19:39Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Make sure they have the proper insurance if you use someone… > > A lot of regular moving companies can’t/won’t touch high end IT stuff. Ya. Regular moving companies sometimes think a server is like a couch and can just pile them in their trucks. Sitting outside some datacenters watching people load and unload servers kinda amazes me. ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/8 "2009-03-30T12:34:44Z")
Rubicant and robhimself plus 3 other guys in a penske moving truck. worst weekend ever. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/9 "2009-03-30T13:01:41Z")
^ I bet the truck smelled like sex after besides. ---
**Author:** ![ryanmcell](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ryanmcell/32/7510_2.png) [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/moving-datacenters/65330/10 "2009-03-30T13:10:14Z")
I see this on a daily basis since we own our datacenters (and quite massive at that), most of our clients will just place entire rack on a pallet, secure the pallet, wrap with non see through cellophane, then schedule for truck pickup as mostly all of these companies have their own haulers. Anytime I’ve helped with small server stuff it’s as simple as shut off equipment, place in car, drive to other site, and load it yourself into other rack. On the colo side of things typically a customer will mail the server/rails, and then the rest is setup on the colo providers side.