Server Relocation in Manchester

Moving production servers is a physical project with an operational deadline. For a CTO or IT Director planning a move in Manchester, the questions are practical: who disconnects the equipment, who reconnects and tests it, and what happens if someone is unavailable on the day. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run data centres, so the work happens inside buildings that other companies operate. Equinix MA1 stands on Manchester Science Park in Manchester, and the Reboot Monkey engineer dispatched to your job follows the site rules of whichever operator runs the building you are moving into or out of.

Server migration, as Reboot Monkey defines it, is the movement of equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. That covers a move within one hall, a move between rooms, and a move from one Manchester facility to another. It is a different task from rack and stack, which is the installation, mounting and cabling of new hardware, and from data center decommissioning, which is the removal and disposal of retired hardware. Many projects combine these, and the scope is written down before work starts so that each party knows what it owns.

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

A migration request begins with the scope: which equipment moves, from which location to which, and by when. Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move or work alongside your own team. Who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project, so a team that wants to keep its own network engineers on the configuration side can do so while Reboot Monkey handles the physical handling and cabling.

A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site. If the primary engineer is unavailable, the project does not wait for a new person to be found and briefed. Equinix MA3 stands on Trafford Park Road in Manchester, and for a move into any building the engineer works under the operator's site rules for access and entry.

The physical work on a migration typically falls into these parts:

Reboot Monkey is vendor-neutral and sells the services around the rack as one supplier: rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network, data-centre hardware and the services that deliver, install and support them. For a migration this matters at the destination. Reboot Monkey orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and its engineers install and patch the cabling in your rack, so the network arrives with the hardware instead of being arranged separately. Reynolds House stands on Reynolds House in Manchester, and each Manchester building carries its own operator and its own entry procedure, which Reboot Monkey works within. For a business with sites beyond Manchester, a single supplier can handle both the local move and a later one elsewhere. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job, so a quote follows from the scope you send.

These terms apply in every facility in Manchester 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 server move often changes where equipment is housed, and many Manchester projects pair the migration with a new rack allocation. If the destination is not yet decided, Colocation in Manchester covers rack space and the connectivity that goes with it. When the old site is being emptied, the retired hardware can be handled through data center decommissioning, which removes and disposes of it. For equipment leaving service, IT asset disposition covers data wiping, on-site shredding or degaussing, collection and transport, and resale or buyback quoted case by case.

After the move, hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC covers your servers and network equipment, and remote hands and smart hands are available for later physical and technical tasks in the rack.