23 September 2008
As businesses outgrow their accommodation so, occasionally, do their servers.
Yesterday at 11:00am Silkmoth's servers became silent for the first time in three years. An hour later they were re-homed and up and running again selling all manner of things from tyres to labelling machines.
Carl Dean, Silkmoth's Technical Director commented on the need to move servers:
"Essentially we've outgrown our current accommodation. We need more equipment because of the growth of our business and that of our customers' websites. It make sense for us to keep everything together and the space we had just wasn't enough any more." "Many customers have asked us why we didn't do the move in the middle of the night or at the weekend. It's quite simple really. Like all small to medium sized businesses we rely on partners and suppliers. Had something gone wrong in the middle of the night it would have been been virtually impossible to rally the appropriate troops. For instance, had we dropped one of the servers, and it does happen, we wouldn't be able to buy a new one until business hours." "As it happened we planned the move meticulously and it all went like clockwork. We've now got plenty of room for further growth and don't anticipate another move for at least another three years."
"Essentially we've outgrown our current accommodation. We need more equipment because of the growth of our business and that of our customers' websites. It make sense for us to keep everything together and the space we had just wasn't enough any more."
"Many customers have asked us why we didn't do the move in the middle of the night or at the weekend. It's quite simple really. Like all small to medium sized businesses we rely on partners and suppliers. Had something gone wrong in the middle of the night it would have been been virtually impossible to rally the appropriate troops. For instance, had we dropped one of the servers, and it does happen, we wouldn't be able to buy a new one until business hours."
"As it happened we planned the move meticulously and it all went like clockwork. We've now got plenty of room for further growth and don't anticipate another move for at least another three years."
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