The Discourse Datacenter
We're in the process of migrating to a new datacenter at he.net so that we can offer world class hosting to our three launch partners.
Here are a few pictures of the co-located server rack that will be the new home of Discourse.
This enormous hallway at Hurricane Electric inspired parts of the Matrix, apparently. The servers are through that door.
![he-datacenter-1](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/03/he-datacenter-1.jpg)
Rows and rows of servers.
![he-datacenter-3](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/03/he-datacenter-3.jpg)
This is our row.
![he-datacenter-4](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/03/he-datacenter-4.jpg)
And here's the rack itself. Only a few things in there now, as we have to move the bulk of the servers from our existing host, lmi.net, on Thursday March 14th.
![he-datacenter-2](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/03/he-datacenter-2.jpg)
We'll have more posts in the future about the hardware running Discourse, but the basic unit of work is the server I talked about in Building Servers for Fun and Prof... OK, Maybe Just for Fun. It's very fast, and inexpensive, too!
So, expect at least 4 hours of outage on Thursday March 14th, 2013, and possibly as much as 8 as we migrate to our new datacenter. Apologies for any inconvenience – but we think this will be the last move for a good long while.
Edit: move complete! Here are some glamour shots of the new servers all cozy and racked at their new Hurricane Electric home:
![he-datacenter-front-full](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/03/he-datacenter-front-full.jpg)
![he-datacenter-back-full](https://blog.discourse.org/content/images/assets/2013/03/he-datacenter-back-full.jpg)
If you're curious about the hardware inside the rack, see The Discourse Servers for lots more details!