Replies to post #52516 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[IH Geek [Dave]]

Doubtful, since they have to be physically loaded onto a truck and driven downtown.

Hopefully they won't pile on and decide to do it during rush hour... assuming KC has a rush hour.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Did it just happen? The site just slowed down to a crawl for a few minutes here.

There will probably be occasional slowdowns since I assume they're doing "things" with the connection.

You'll know when it happens, though. The sites (both iHub and SI) will suddenly go offline and when that happens, they're going to throw the machines into a truck and get them to KC as quickly as they can.

I thought they'd be able to do it quickly by just quickly taking the whole cabinet up there, leaving the machines running on the UPS, but that won't be the case because the cheap cabinet has no floor or wheels (it was the best I could find of a large batch of them they'd bought cheap somewhere).

They're going to have to disconnect power cords and patch cables for all 6 machines, take the machines out of the cabinets (a couple of them weigh a good 100 lbs each), load them into a truck, drive them to KC, hook them back up, and cross their fingers while they power them up.

The outage could be as long as 2 hours or as little as 45 minutes. All depends on how quickly they can empty the cabinet when the lights go out on the connection.

I'm planning to stay out of the way for the move since I don't bring much to the table expect a pair of hands, but am considering running up there not only to help out, but to get that crappy cabinet since we won't be using it but I paid $800 for it. I can use it at home for the recording studio.