Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

Wed Aug 27 20:24:43 UTC 2003

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.

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Chuck Goolsbee                          V.P. Technical Operations
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