Moving online webserver using public transport
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN treats it as the classic example of moving a live server with zero downtime, brought up whenever the topic of uninterrupted migration comes up.
What it is
A short video of five people carrying a live, running web server across the city by public transport to a new datacenter. It stayed powered and connected to the internet the whole way, so there was no downtime.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Cites dijit · 2020-01 · on “Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?”
Oh for sure this is possible: [this video] the devices that do it without doing what these guys did is quite pricey though [LINK]
Cites aeno · 2020-08 · on “Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime”
A real classic comes to mind: [this video] Moving a running server about 7km through public transport without downtime.
Cites z3ugma · 2020-11 · on “Ask HN: What is the solution to the Seinfeld “Frogger” problem?”
These sysadmins moved a webserver across their city while keeping it powered and connected to the Internet... [this video]
Cites throw0101c · 2026-06 · on “AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs”
From a few years ago: > Five guys moving a server to a new datacenter without shutting it down. Without cutting it off from the internet. And as using a car would have been too easy, they used public transport. * [this video] (DE audio, EN subs)