This post is about a service FastServers.Net has been offering for almost 5 years.    As part of our management service portfolio, we have helped 1000’s of dedicated server owners move into their new platform by offering migration services.    In May of 2008 this service was put to test and a special team was assembled to review the process, enhance it, and develop what we consider the best migration services available.

As many managed hosting providers offer great services the potential problem is actually getting your website, applications, databases, and special server configurations up and running.   This process can take weeks or months even if you have a technical group in charge.   The FastServers.Net team collaborated and conquered this with the new offering now available for both current and new customers.    I wanted to take a few minutes and put up some general information and let the world know that it will soon be published on the website!

Enterprise Migration Services Overview
The Enterprise Migration Services (EMS) is an important service offered to client of FastServers.Net and provides a “special project” team to perform server migrations.    This hybrid service pulls together an assigned team of engineers that will evaluate, plan, and execute the migration of your current server to the new server.

More Than Data Transfer
The goal of the Enterprise Migration Services is to fully migrate applications, databases, configurations, and website in working order to their new site.    This process includes the review of the current setup and then estimates the overall time needed to make the migration happen.    Once the process is started an assigned engineer will work one on one with your organization to evaluate your technology and provide ongoing communication through the process.

Your Responsibilities!
The most important items you will be responsible for during the migration are as follows:

Scheduled phone calls to discuss the migration and coordination and if available any technical engineers that have participated in your current server administration.

Review and acceptance of the Enterprise Migration Quote

Final Testing of Website, Applications,  and databases – followed by approval

Final Name Server (DNS) Updates

Enterprise Migration Costing
Each Enterprise Migration service is a custom quotation and proposal and based on the estimated number of hours associated with the project.   After the initial phone call and the ability to review your current server, a final project quote will be sent out.    This final quote will be the fixed price you pay for your Enterprise Migration and is derived from the total number of hour’s experience engineers will require to make it happen.    The final proposal you receive will be the final price of the project with no risk of overages!   Our teams are that confident in their ability to properly evaluate all aspects of an Enterprise Migration!

How to Get Started
Your Account Manager will help start the process.    Direct administrator level or root level access will be required for the proposal.      A project help desk ticket will be generated and sent to our Enterprise Migration Team who will evaluate and schedule a call with you.    After the initial call the final pricing will be delivered to your Account Manager and a proposal developed.    Once this proposal is completed you will be able to process the order online for the execution of the migration.    The Enterprise Migration Team will receive notification and schedule a date and time to complete the project.