Dear bloggers,

Next week BCUK will be taking an enormous leap forward with the move to the new data centre. It's a move that we have been meticulously planning and preparing for for quite some time, and quite a hefty sum of money has been invested in it. The hardware will be provided by one single reputable provider. This new data centre in Nürnberg will finally allow us to plan, grow and develop on a much longer term basis than ever before.

umzug01For you bloggers, that means that you can come and anxiously wring your hands with us on the night of Tuesday, April 15th and Wednesday, April 16th. Our taskforce, comprising of the office admin, Oli and Felix, as well as the senior developers, Dominic, Florian and Alex, will be in the office all night, keeping things under control and listening vigilantly for alarm bells.

An internet move involves many factors, most of which cannot be simulated or tested. Can the new hardware carry the load? On the internet, there is a type of 'mail forwarding', just like when you move house. If this doesn't work properly, it could be that some of you might be seeing quite a bit of little blue mascot MO giving you nasty error messages...

Is everything where it should be? Everything has to be moved, terrabyte by terrabyte, data that would fill thousands upon thousands of CDs. Hopefully not even the tiniest bit of information will be broken or changed, let alone lost.

Sometime between 00:30 and 04:30 (British time), the team will be able to relax somewhat, but that does not mean that they can go to bed - Murphy's Law can strike even the most precisely made plans.

The new heart of BCUK will be one in which sixteen cores beat - twice as many as the current one. There will also be 33% more memory capacity, and the webservers will also be faster. As well as this, there will be more space for your media - five times more, to be specific. So soon we will be able to offer you more personal storage space.

All of us in the Mokono team would like to sincerely thank our business partners, who have supported and helped us immesurably in the recent months, especially IP Exchange, Dell, Connect, Coyote Point Systems, bismark technology GmbH and Manitu - our old provider with whom we worked closely for three years, and who always stood by us in times of crisis.

So we would like apologise and to ask for your understanding and patience, since the platform will be absolutely unusable between about 00:30 and 04:30 (BST) on Wednesday, April 16th. Rest assured that we will do everything in our power to have things up and running, even more smoothly than before, by 04:30.

Thanks for your support,
Your blog.co.uk team.

A few quick shots of our new home:
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