Server Migration in Rotterdam

NL-ix describes the Rotterdam region as an important internet hub for fibre-optic routes to Brussels and Paris and for maritime cables to the United States via London. NL-ix also says its Rotterdam exchange R_iX is a great base for connections to London, Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt. For a CTO or IT Director, that is the context in which a move to or within Rotterdam is planned. Eurofiber Datacenter Rotterdam 2 stands on Schuttevaerweg in Rotterdam.

Server migration, in the terms Reboot Monkey uses, is moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. A migration may be a rack-to-rack move inside one hall, a move between rooms, or a transfer from one facility to another. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It is not a hosting company and does not own datacenters, so the work is done inside facilities that other companies own and run. That keeps the move vendor-neutral: the equipment, the facility and the carriers are yours to choose.

Data centres in Rotterdam, ordered by the number of networks present:

A migration project is handled as a sequence of agreed steps rather than a single dispatch. The scope is set with you before any equipment is touched, and the way the work is split between Reboot Monkey and your own team is part of that scope.

Reboot Monkey engineers are dispatched to the customer's facility, so the same operating model applies whether the move is within Rotterdam or part of a wider programme. The facility operator owns and runs the building, including its power, cooling and access policy, and Reboot Monkey engineers work under the operator's site rules. Planning a migration therefore starts with the operator's access procedure, and the sequence of disconnection, transport and reconnection is built around it. The work is not limited to the move itself. Rack and stack covers installing, mounting and cabling new hardware at the destination. Hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC covers the customer's servers and network equipment once they are running again. Remote hands and smart hands cover the physical and technical tasks that come up after cut-over, from cable checks and component swaps to work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

These terms apply in every facility in Rotterdam where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

A migration programme often spans more than one site. If part of your estate sits in the capital, the same approach applies to Server Migration in Amsterdam, with the same agreed split of roles between Reboot Monkey and your own team. Moves between cities in the Netherlands are planned as one project, with source and destination handled in a single scope.

A migration usually ends with equipment that needs rack space. If the destination in Rotterdam is a new rack, Colocation in Rotterdam provides the rack space, and rack and stack installs, mounts and cables the hardware once it arrives. Where retired equipment is left behind after the move, data center decommissioning removes and disposes of it, and IT asset disposition covers data wiping, on-site shredding or degaussing, collection and transport, and resale or buyback quoted case by case.