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Server Migration in Houston
Server migration in Houston means moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. Reboot Monkey engineers carry out the physical move inside data centres that other companies own and run, either as the whole project or alongside your own team, with the division of tasks agreed before work starts.
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Plan your Houston server migration
Tell us where the equipment is today, where it needs to go and who on your team will take part. Reboot Monkey will scope the move and quote it on request.
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Server Migration in Houston
Moving production hardware is a physical operation with a tight sequence: equipment is powered down, disconnected, moved, racked, reconnected and tested, and each step has to match the plan your applications team has written. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network, data-centre hardware and the services that deliver, install and support them, inside data centres that other companies own and run. It is not a hosting company and does not own datacenters.
Houston buyers often have equipment spread across more than one building. Netrality Houston - 1301 Fannin stands on Fannin in Houston. Data Foundry Houston 2 stands on Greens Pkwy in Houston. A move between buildings, or between racks inside one of them, is handled as one project with one scope, whatever the route. Digital Realty HOU (12001 North Freeway) stands on North Freeway in Houston, and a migration can start or end there just as it can in any other building.
Datacenter Facilities in Houston
Data centres in Houston, ordered by the number of networks present:
- Databank Houston West (HOU1) (HOU2) (DataBank, Ltd.), 5150 & 5170 Westway Park Blvd, Houston 77041: 37 networks; carriers AT&T US, Arelion and FiberLight LLC
- Netrality Houston - 1301 Fannin (Netrality Data Centers), 1301 Fannin - Netrality Data Center Meet Me Room, 1301 Fannin Street, Houston 77002: 30 networks; carriers AT&T US and Arelion
- Digital Realty HOU (12001 North Freeway), 12001 North Freeway, Houston 77060: 14 networks
- Data Foundry Houston 2 (Data Foundry, Inc.), 660 Greens Pkwy, Houston 77067: 12 networks; carriers Arelion and FiberLight LLC
- FIBERTOWN Houston Data Center, 12031 North Fwy, Houston TX 77060-1702: 11 networks; carriers FiberLight LLC and MIDnet
- Databank Houston Galleria (HOU5) (DataBank, Ltd.), 4201 Southwest Freeway, Houston 77027: 8 networks; carriers AT&T US and FiberLight LLC
- Quasar Data Center, 1001 Texas Ave, Houston 77002: 7 networks
- Consolidated - 811 Louisiana (Consolidated Communications, Inc.), 811 Louisiana St, Houston 77002: 4 networks
- Equinix HO1 - Houston (Equinix, Inc.), 1515 Aldine Meadows Road, Houston 77032: 4 networks; carriers AT&T US
- INAP Houston (INAP Holding LLC), 1301 Fannin St., Houston 77002: 4 networks; carriers FiberLight LLC
Our Server Migration Services
Server migration, as Reboot Monkey defines it, is moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. The work around that move is split into tasks you can assign, and the assignment is part of the project plan rather than an assumption.
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 application-level testing in house can do so while Reboot Monkey engineers handle the handling, transport and racking.
- Moves between racks or rooms within a facility, and moves between facilities.
- Racking and cabling of the migrated hardware in the destination rack, using the rack and stack service where new mounting and cabling are needed.
- Network for the destination rack: 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.
- Decommissioning of the source environment afterwards, when retired hardware has to be removed and disposed of.
- Hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC once the equipment is live in its new location, where you want it.
Why Reboot Monkey
A migration fails most often at the handover points: someone is unsure who owns a cable, a circuit is not ready, or the engineer on site is unfamiliar with the plan. Reboot Monkey addresses these with specific working practices rather than general assurances.
A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so a single absence does not stop a scheduled move. Reboot Monkey is vendor-neutral and sits between you and the operator of the building, so the cross connects, carrier circuits and rack space for the new location can be arranged through one counterpart.
The building's power, cooling and access policy belong to the facility operator. Reboot Monkey engineers work under the operator's site rules, and your project plan is written with those rules in view.
Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations, which matters when a Houston migration is one leg of a wider relocation across several sites.
How Reboot Monkey Works
These terms apply in every facility in Houston where Reboot Monkey engineers work.
- Response: 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA, and a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. The incident response SLA covers incidents and unplanned requests; on-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
- Monitoring: 24/7 NOC monitoring across all facilities, covering IPMI, iDRAC, SNMP, temperature, power, network signals.
- Hardware: vendor-neutral technicians for Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment.
- Independence: independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff).
- One agreement: single provider across cities, so a customer in several cities needs only one agreement.
- Service levels and terms: https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/solutions/sla
- Published case study: a major ICT provider engaged Reboot Monkey for three full infrastructure rollouts in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, with the hardware installed the same day at every site. Read the case study at https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/resources/case-study/how-we-completed-3-full-deployments-across-pakistan
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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.
Server Migration in Other Cities in United States
Migrations rarely stay inside one city. A Houston project may pair with a move into or out of another market, and the same engineering model applies there. For the central corridor, see [Server Migration in Dallas](/en/server-migration/united-states/dallas/) and [Server Migration in Chicago](/en/server-migration/united-states/chicago/). For the East Coast, see [Server Migration in Ashburn](/en/server-migration/united-states/ashburn/).
Related Services
A migration often changes what you need next. If the destination rack is not yet in place, you can arrange [Colocation in Houston](/en/colocation/united-states/houston/) so space, power and connectivity are ready before the move. If the old environment is being closed, retired equipment can be handled through [Data Center Decommissioning in Houston](/en/data-center-decommissioning/united-states/houston/), which covers removal and disposal of the hardware you no longer run.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does server migration cover in Houston?
Server migration covers moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. In Houston, Reboot Monkey engineers can run the whole physical move or work alongside your own team. Who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site.
Do you work in every datacenter in Houston?
Reboot Monkey engineers work in any facility in Houston where the customer has equipment and access, under the operator's own access and safety rules. The customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list before the first visit.
How fast can Reboot Monkey respond in Houston?
Incidents and unplanned requests are handled under a 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA. There is also a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. On-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
How is Reboot Monkey different from the facility operator's own staff?
Facility operators' own technicians work for the building. Reboot Monkey engineers work for the customer: they are independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff), follow the customer's instructions, and the same team can cover several buildings in the city under one agreement.
How do I get started with server migration in Houston?
Send the site, the equipment and the task through the contact form. Reboot Monkey replies with a quote and an engineer plan for that facility. Once agreed, the customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list and the server migration work is scheduled under the operator's rules.
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Plan your Houston server migration
Tell us where the equipment is today, where it needs to go and who on your team will take part. Reboot Monkey will scope the move and quote it on request.