Moving my Servers to a Colocation Facility

[chasejordan1]

I am moving all my servers to a colocation facility and have some questions and concerns. My current set up is below. I will have static External IP's from the facility.

1. Should I change the IP addresses on all servers to the external IP's and everything should be fine. (firewall is Good Guys)
2. Should I get a router and put all servers on the "lan" and then point the External IP's to where they need to be?
3. Should I get a managed switch? (never used one before)
4. What should I be aware of when moving everything to a facility... The good the bad and the ugly?

I am moving my servers because I need dedicated power and better / more bandwidth?

Any help would be appreciated.

[mflorell]

There are lots of ways to set it up, the way we would recommend is to have dual LAN on all servers and use the servers as internal IP for primary and external IP for secondary, then set up the External IP on the server modification screen in the admin web GUI. That way you don't have the internal database traffic travelling on the open internet(and your database doesn't necessarily have to even have a public IP).

[chasejordan1]

All my servers have dual nic.

Currently Nic 1 is 10.1.10.XXX (LAN)

If I understand correctly all I really need to do is keep Nic 1 the same and then set up Nic 2 on each server (except Mysql server) as 173.14.76.XXX (external IP) and then in Admin - Server set External IP as 173.14.76.xxx.

Plug it all into a switch so they can all talk and BAAMM all set.

[mflorell]

That should work, but I would recommend double-checking that you have the firewall active on all external nics, and only open up the ports that are needed externally.