[61292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chuck goolsbee)
Wed Aug 27 16:27:48 2003
In-Reply-To: <00d001c36cc7$c25ecbb0$6401640a@mzito>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:24:43 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: chuck goolsbee <chucklist@forest.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We recently (beginning of July) acquired a small hosting company
(about 100 servers) based in New Jersey. This was a very
short-notice, literally overnight move of many servers, and
customers, from New Jersey to the west coast.
We used Airborne Express <http://www.airborne.com> to overnight ship
the "minimal downtime" machines... with the exception of their mail
server, which we brought as luggage on our return flight.
All the stuff arrived the next day, on-time, and about 99% intact, as
one server on the overnight stuff was DOA.
We picked Airborne specifically for their price... they were the
lowest bid we received for an overnight, Saturday-delivery shipper.
They performed as advertised.
The 'non-critical" equipment (racks, cabinets, spare servers, etc.)
were shipped ground, and unlike the overnight, it was beat to hell.
Go figure.
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
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