navigation Basic navigation WEB4U Bring up contents and menu Press and hold your finger on the sheet Move to another sheet Swipe right / left Movement within the sheet Swipe up / down Server Housing from CRA How we moved the entire WEB4U organization and all of their services to the DC TOWER. Look before you leap – the key thing was precision planning and making the right decision In 2017, Web4U decided to completely move their business. This included all technologies within the data centre, as well as office space and employees. KThe complete migration of the entire company only took 4 months The entire process of moving was to take place from November 2017 to February 2018. In other words - we had "just" four months. And of course everything had to be executed in a way that would affect operations as little as possible. So we needed good planning and preparations. In great detail. Web4U had a clear picture of what it wanted from a nbsp;new data centre provider and what the expectations for the new place are. Among the main criteria was a modern data centre, security level and physical availability. After intensive talks and a long decision-making process, the choice was made to move to our DC TOWER Praha I. In September of 2017, the contract was signed and the moving madness could begin after two months. „Because we continue to expand our services and the customer base continues to increase, we needed to find an environment for our technologies that would be modern, technologically mature and, at the same time, offered above standard security. The existing data centre did not provide this. We are aware that České Radiokomunikace continues to invest in the development of their data centres and offer a very modern technological environment. In addition to this, they managed to offer office space that absolutely fit our needs. The choice was clear.“ Pavel Kubas, CEO of Web4U Customers can't notice a thing… Kdo jsou Kdo jsou TOTAL SERVICE s.r.o.? The planned downtime of dedicated servers was mastered beautifully In cooperation with specialists from Web4U, we prepared a migration plan. The important thing was that the move would affect customers as little as possible. Web4U acquainted all customers in advance with the prepared migration along with communicating that there would be downtime for dedicated and managed dedicated servers. During the process of moving, everyone tried to be very mindful of the specific needs of certain customers. Upon agreement with customers, we took advantage of the situation to also replace several tens of servers. Virtual servers and internal systems were moved with no downtime On the contrary, customer virtual servers and the internal Web4U servers, on which webhosting services run, were migrated via so called live migration within a virtualisation cluster. We prepared servers at our DC TOWER Prague I which are connected to the existing cluster. The virtual machines were migrated to these servers. We then migrated the entire virtualisation infrastructure of Web4U from the former data centre to DC TOWER Prague I. This contributed to experiencing no downtime during the migration of virtual servers. The migration of e-mail services took place in a similar manner. Thanks to virtualisation and cluster connections, no downtime was experienced on internal Web4U systems. „The migration took place with all of our system administrators and technical support going at full speed. We really appreciate the flexible cooperation with the DC TOWER Prague I management and CRA technicians. Everything was exactly according to plan." Pavel Kubas, CEO of Web4U New equipment and increased security of the data hall 24/7 surveillance centre Advanced person authorization Automatic fire extinguishing system Camera system and IR barriers Fire system with hundreds of sensors Server installation and commissioning Each WEB4U customer must notify, in advance, what type of server they will bring, the size and what the consumption is. Web4U administrators will subsequently select a rack, configure the network for the given customer and then place the server into the rack. The initial placement into the rack is again in cooperation with Web4U administrators. The customer can then access the server although full authorization rules and conditions remain valid. Touch to read more Successful finale: technologies and employees in the DC TOWER in the Žižkov Quarter In February of 2018, the process of moving Web4U was in its final stages. At the time, most employees were already settled in the new offices a the Prague I DC Tower located in the Žižkov Quarter. Most of the infrastructure had also already been moved. The office network workstations had also underwent a modernising overhaul during the moving process. Web4U s.r.o. (Web4U), since being founded in 2003, has offered complex services in the area of webhosting, serverhosting and domain registration. Tens of thousands of clients in the Czech Republic take advantage of their services and have a wide range of hosting services and packages, as well as uninterrupted technical infrastructure, at their disposal. Customers of Web4U include the logistics service Zásilkovna s.r.o., Drbna.cz news portal, BONTONFILM a.s. or e-commerce platform for selling contact lenses, ALENSA, s.r.o. Who is Web4U? How Web4U benefited from the move to DC TOWER 1 Quality facilities for infrastructure 2 Space for further expansion of services and for more customers 3 Modern environment for offices with direct accessibility 4 High level of security for client technology