# How we migrated 30,000 blogs & 400,000 users across an ocean with zero downtime

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-we-migrated-30-000-blogs-400-000-users-across-an-ocean-with-zero-downtime/295>\
**Category:** News\
**Created:** [March 31, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-we-migrated-30-000-blogs-400-000-users-across-an-ocean-with-zero-downtime/295 "2018-03-31T14:13:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ghost](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ghost/32/15563_2.png) [@Ghost](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-we-migrated-30-000-blogs-400-000-users-across-an-ocean-with-zero-downtime/295/1 "2018-03-31T14:13:55Z")

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Some time in May 2013, a handful of fearless (ha) developers sat down to work on the very first implementation **Ghost(Pro)**, the official hosted platform for Ghost. The aim was to ship it as fast as humanly possible.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://dev.ghost.org/migrating-to-digitalocean/](https://dev.ghost.org/migrating-to-digitalocean/)

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**Author:** ![John](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/john/32/29288_2.png) [@John](https://forum.ghost.org/u/John)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-we-migrated-30-000-blogs-400-000-users-across-an-ocean-with-zero-downtime/295/2 "2021-10-13T18:39:27Z")

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Closed on October 13, 2021, 6:39pm UTC