Perhaps the weight is one ton. Maybe it’s five. Either way, it’s off my shoulders at last! Nearing the end of a project (even if it means another, larger project is starting very soon) is one of the best feelings in the world.

For the past four months, a large percentage of my efforts have been towards procuring new datacenter space for BitPusher. This is the 14th or 15th time in my life that I’ve gone through the datacenter evaluation process. It’s only the 2nd time that I’ve done this for my own company though, so it was probably the most important.

Now that the selection phase is over, I’m going over my journal, notes, timelogs, and loose ends that emerged this journey. So much work went into this process that I am teaching a class about this for LOPSA’s, SysAdminDays” in Phoenix, on November 7th. The class is entitled “Data Centers, Data Closets and Server Hosting”.

I thought I’d share some fun statistics related to this effort.

* E-mails sent: 478
* E-mails received: 536
* Quotes received: 14
* States visited: 2
* States datacenters are located in: 8 (Pennsylvania, Nevada, Iowa, Idaho, Washington, Arizona, Chicago, and California)
* Time on telephone: 26 hours, 40 minutes
* Miles flown: 2,500
* Datacenters visited: 11
* Datacenters spoken to: 19
* Overnight stays: 5
* Quote revisions: mathmatics fails to provide me with an accurate estimate

Once the contract is signed, I’ll write a quick follow-up espousing the many virtues of our new facility.

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