Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Remember, the Chaos servers were moved... from Montreal to Germany. It takes a while to copy as much data as is needed for all of the characters on a datacenter halfway across the world.

They are moving them only from one rack to another. This should be able to be done either logically (aka they just update the logical addresses and maybe change some cabling and networking in the logical datacenter), or can be done in one maint over 24 hours. (if there is new hardware)
The company they rented the servers from most likely changed. I doubt they physically moved servers across the pond. Also take into account the world visiting feature being flipped on. That will add another step to all of this. Ultimately, it does say "Over a two week period."

Remember, Chaos was down for five days and went through something similar. However, Chaos was moved intact from hardware to hardware. In this situation you're removing individual servers from the data center cluster and making an entirely new one. Chaos was already made and just needed to be moved. It didn't become a data center from another data center. They cited two weeks not me.