Alright, so this is a heads up. All of my sites will start having 'issues' sometime from tomorrow until the weekend. That's not to say they'll STOP having issues by the weekend, but they'll START having issues somewhere around that time. I'm thinking tomorrow.. or Thursday.. I suppose I could push it back until Friday.

I will be removing the servers from their current data center, moving them 45 minutes north and placing them in my new offices. Obviously the move itself (unmounting 13 servers, transporting them, and remounting them) will take several hours.

Then I will need to reconfigure all of their IP addresses, since all of the IP addresses are changing.. And hopefully everything should work. But I'm sure there's going to be a config here and there that I forget to change. PLUS, it's going to depend on how long it'll take MY DNS servers, and the DNS YOU are using.. to update all of the information and start pointing you in the right direction. Finally, it depends on whether or not my T1 lines here are going to perform as they should or not. I worry, because sometimes it seems like they don't. But it might just be the wireless router I use for my laptop.

Eventually once things get settled there will be more downtime as I move the servers to a permanent location (yet to be started or finished) in the office.. But that shouldn't take too long and I'll do it at like 3am anyway.

Also, if there's storms and the power goes out or something.. That will be a problem since I don't have automatic backup power. I plan to get a generator, but it still will require me to know when the power goes down, and to drive to the building. Yay.

Big exciting changes.

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