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Managed hosting provides superior value to businesses by blending the best characteristics of colocation and fully outsourced solutions and delivering them with an extremely high level of savings. In the example configuration outlined below evaluating two comparable managed hosting and colocation solutions, the Stone Street Customized IT Hosting solution delivers higher levels of service, availability and security at your typical hosting costs.

Are you in the process of deciding to move to a new hosting provider?

Stone Street understands that this can be a stressful undertaking but can help alleviate some of it by being there every step of the way. With the right planning and proper safeguards and measures, your move can be a rewarding and relatively easy process.

What steps should I take?

Take Inventory
The first thing you need to take a look at is what exactly you will be migrating. Take an inventory of all your applications and data and break them down to their major components. Is your software outdated or approaching end-of-life? If it is, this may be a prime opportunity to switch hosting providers.

• Understand your dependencies
• Capture all your data in a detailed document

Consider Your Resources
What resources do you currently have versus what you need? Ensure that you have the right people (involved players) and have allocated proper time for the move.

• People
• Time

Create a Plan
Once you have accounted for the applications and databases, with their corresponding resources, you can begin to map out your migration. What does your application and/or database look like today and how will it look tomorrow? Migrating allows you to build towards your future requirements. Make sure to anticipate the unanticipated, and establish a back out plan in the event you discover an overlooked application dependency. We understand that your environment is not static and our account managers, support and lead technicians will work with you on building scalability into your solution.

• Build towards future development requirements
• Consider scaling capacity
• Timeframe – When is your low-impact period?
• Consider dependencies
• Develop a fallback plan

Test your Plan
Do a “dry run” of transporting your data to check for any roadblocks or potential problems. Begin staging your application and database migration. Stone Street has considerable experience and can help guide you down the right road.

• Test. Troubleshoot. Resolve Issues.
• Test Again. Troubleshoot. Resolve Issues
• Timeframe – When is your low-impact period?
• Test Again.
• Remember: "...Measure Twice and cut Once!"

Time to Move and meet your new team
Once testing is complete and you’re ready for your final move, notify your support team so that they may help you watch for any unanticipated issues via our advanced monitoring systems. Migrate your current data, update DNS and monitor your new solution.

• Team Leader
• Account Manager
• Support Specialist
• Business Development consultants
• Level I, II and III technicians