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Moving online webserver using public transport
About this video
A short video of five people carrying a live, running web server across the city by public transport to a new datacenter. It stayed powered and connected to the internet the whole way, so there was no downtime.
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HN treats it as the classic example of moving a live server with zero downtime, brought up whenever the topic of uninterrupted migration comes up.
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From the Hacker News discussion
Oh for sure this is possible: [VIDEO] the devices that do it without doing what these guys did is quite pricey though [LINK]
Read original comment ↗A real classic comes to mind: [VIDEO] Moving a running server about 7km through public transport without downtime.
Read original comment ↗These sysadmins moved a webserver across their city while keeping it powered and connected to the Internet... [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗From a few years ago: > Five guys moving a server to a new datacenter without shutting it down. Without cutting it off from the internet. And as using a car would have been too easy, they used public transport. * [VIDEO] (DE audio, EN subs)
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