sheesh! – this moving thing sucks!
Three floors of house, 15 computers, 2 girls, 4 cats, 41 gallons of fish and
75 active domain names. In 72 hours.
It sucked.
Here we are, live and in color – the domains are starting to come alive, Tatsumi
is on her cable
modem and she is even broadcasting a webcam and some live audio! You can
find out more about how that is going at girl2.com.
In the process, I have learned a lot of cool tech stuff and kicked some serious
tech booty. It is still going to take a few days to get it all settled in, but
we are doing fine now and I have a handle on it. We are going to let rackspace
take the load for a while and rebuild our network under Windows2000
so that should be fun. More later!
Some shout-outs to the folks who helped make this happen on time…
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Kearny Movers – 201-991-8479 – These guys rule! They worked hard
for us for almost 10 hours the first day, packing our storage space and helping
us with the packing at the house. They even came in right on their estimate!
When push came to shove they even helped us find another company if need be. -
All Seasons
Movers – 6:30pm and we have to move 15 computers and a ton of misc. crap.
Kearny Movers is closed (bummer!) but they recommenced All Seasons. Called
them up and they happened to have two guys and a truck available for an hour.
They came, they saw, they worked and didn’t bleed us on the price. -
Rackspace –
They are hosting us over the next month or two and I have to say I am very
impressed. They had our server online in less that 6 hours and the price is
not bad. The software they put on runs like a top and the hardware is exactly
what they said it would be. Their technical support people have been responsive
and knowledgeable. While we will go back to hosting ourselves as soon as we
can, I will be recommending these folks to anyone who asks. -
@Work – Our primary
connection supplier. They are doing all they can to get our T-1’s installed
in the new location ASAP despite the Verizon
strike. They have always provided us with great service and they let us know
as soon as it was clear we would have a service gap. As soon as we pulled
the plug on our router they called us to verify that this was a planned downage…
they are good. -
Spheres – A cool
company who gave Tatsumi the time to help make this move happen. They do good
work. -
Blogger –
The ability to update our pages from anywhere has been absolutely essential. Try it!