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Data Center Move Goes Awry for TypePad
miller60 writes "Problems during a switchover between data centers have slowed TypePad, the popular blog hosting service. Typepad maxed out its data center space and all available power at Internap, and is in the process of moving to a new data center. The transition has not gone smoothly, causing the Typepad service to slow to a crawl amid very public complaints by its blogger customers. TypePad operator Six Apart promises things will improve soon."
Before we committed our 3 racks of servers to a data center, one of our primary research factors was the availability of growth capacity for our data center.
To that end, we chose to host our servers in an Emeryville data center rather than the same provider's Sacramento data center.
They were able to contractually guarantee 5 more racks, and 100 more amps of power, giving us the room to grow.
You can buy cheap, but it ends up biting you in the butt. Make sure that you look at your long-term goals when deciding where to set up shop.
Often this step should be included before all others:
0. Update your DNS zones and lower the TTL to e.g. 10 Minutes. Otherwise people might not notice the new address for hours or even days (depending on your normal settings).