The Long Way Home: Rescuing 150 Email Accounts from the Other Side of the World
They say that “distance makes the heart grow fonder,” but in the world of web hosting, distance just makes your email slow, cranky, and prone to disappearing when you need it most. Recently, we were approached by a large engineering firm based in North Yorkshire, UK. They were facing a bit of a digital nightmare: over 150 critical email accounts running on a virtual server that was, for reasons known only to history, located in Sydney, Australia. Now, we love…