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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 _________________________________________________________________ digital.forest Phone: +1-877-720-0483, x2001 where Internet solutions grow Int'l: +1-425-483-0483 19515 North Creek Parkway Fax: +1-425-482-6871 Suite 208 http://www.forest.net Bothell, WA 98011 email: [email protected]
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