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Moving online webserver using public transport

Sascha P · 163.8K views · 2010-10-05 · 9:59

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Overview

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.

On Hacker News

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.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2020–2026

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Cloud, DevOps & reliabilitySystems & security (other)
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What people said

throw0101c · 2026-06 · Reference

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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z3ugma · 2020-11 · Reference

These sysadmins moved a webserver across their city while keeping it powered and connected to the Internet... [VIDEO]

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aeno · 2020-08 · Reference

A real classic comes to mind: [VIDEO] Moving a running server about 7km through public transport without downtime.

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