Server Migration Services in San Francisco

Server migration is the physical movement of equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. In San Francisco that usually means a customer consolidating hardware into a new cage, leaving one building for another, or relocating a few racks within the same hall. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own or run the buildings, so every migration is carried out as a guest of the facility operator, which owns the building and sets the rules for power, cooling and access, and Reboot Monkey engineers work under those site rules.

The city has several established colocation buildings. Digital Realty SFO (365 Main) stands on Main Street, and a move into or out of a building like this starts with the operator's access and delivery procedures. Reboot Monkey engineers plan the move around those procedures, so equipment travels with the right paperwork and the right people are on the access list when the truck arrives.

The work covers the full physical chain: powering down and labelling, dismounting from the source rack, transport, mounting and cabling at the destination, and the hand-over for testing. Where the new location needs network, Reboot Monkey also sells it. The cross connects and carrier circuits are ordered from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and Reboot Monkey engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack.

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

A server migration request starts with the equipment list and the two endpoints: where the hardware sits today and where it must end up. From that, Reboot Monkey writes the scope for the project, including the number of racks and devices involved, the building access each site requires and the order in which equipment will move. Digital Realty SFO (200 Paul) stands on Paul Ave, and a destination in a building like it means arranging dock access and escort with the operator before any hardware leaves the source.

On the day, field engineers dismount the equipment, label cables and ports, pack and transport the hardware, then rack and cable it at the destination. This is the same rack-and-stack work Reboot Monkey performs for new hardware, applied to equipment that already carries live workloads. Smart-hands engineers can also be assigned when the move needs configuration knowledge or diagnostic judgement rather than purely physical handling.

What the customer receives at the end is a finished physical move: equipment mounted, cabled and ready for the customer's team or Reboot Monkey to test. Related work can be attached to the same project when it applies:

Migrations fail on coordination more often than on hardware, so the working arrangement matters as much as the engineers. Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move or work alongside the customer's own team. Who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project, which lets a customer keep its own administrators in charge of the systems while Reboot Monkey handles the lifting, transport and cabling, or hand over the entire move.

Every customer site has a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer named as backup, so a single absence does not stall a move that has a booked access window. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations, which means the same way of working applies when a San Francisco migration is one leg of a larger programme across several sites.

Because Reboot Monkey sells the network, the hardware and the physical services together, a migration into a new facility can be planned as one project: space, connectivity and installation under one scope. 360 Spear stands on Spear St, one of the San Francisco addresses where such a combined project can take place. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

These terms apply in every facility in San Francisco 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.

Customers with equipment in more than one US market can plan migrations as a series with a common method. Reboot Monkey engineers also carry out server migration in [Houston](/en/server-migration/united-states/houston/), [Kansas City](/en/server-migration/united-states/kansas-city/), [New York](/en/server-migration/united-states/new-york/), [Ashburn](/en/server-migration/united-states/ashburn/), [Chicago](/en/server-migration/united-states/chicago/), [Dallas](/en/server-migration/united-states/dallas/) and [Denver](/en/server-migration/united-states/denver/). Moving a stack from San Francisco to one of these cities, or the reverse, is scoped as one project with a single point of contact, with the access and delivery steps of each building handled at both ends.

A migration often changes where equipment lives, so the surrounding services are worth scoping at the same time. If the destination is a new rack position, [Colocation in San Francisco](/en/colocation/united-states/san-francisco/) covers rack space and the network that goes with it. If the move is part of closing or relocating a whole site rather than a set of racks, [Data Center Migration in San Francisco](/en/data-center-migration/united-states/san-francisco/) is the better fit for a programme of that size.