Rackspace to Google Workspace Migration Process
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RACKSPACE TO GOOGLE WORKSPACE MIGRATION PROCESS
1. Migration Inputs
It all starts with understanding about your current email system, where we ask a few questions like which Rackspace plan you use, where is your DNS hosted etc. You can learn more our migration requirements here.
2. Advance Payment
We ask 50% advance to assign our expert migration resources and premium tools to your project.We use Paypal so you can pay by using any of your major credit card.
3. Project Organization
Once we have all required information, we enter it in our Google Sheet based project management tool to share with you (we bet, you can easily manage projects in Google Sheets).
You can easily track progress of your migration on this Google Sheet. Our team keeps it updated every couple of hours.
4. Google Workspace Setup
We start setting up Google Workspace for you following Google’s best recommended practices including domain verification, SPF record creation, DKIM setup, creating users, aliases, groups and resource calendar.
Our setup also includes configuring all Google recommended security settings.
5. Migration Setup
We start the magic of making connections between Rackspace and Google Workspace email servers, fix issues (if any).
At this time, we are ready to programmatically fetch data from Rackspace email servers and ingest that into your Google Workspace users mailbox.
6. Base Migration
We do migration in two phases (1) Base Migration and (2) Delta Migration, and let us tell you why.
If you take any action on the email in Rackspace mailbox (e.g moving it to a folder) after we migrated it, migration utilities would not catch it.
To avoid this, we migrate emails starting From 01-01-1990 TO 30 days older than today in the first (Base) migration, last 30 days email in second (Delta) migration which we perform on weekend after changing your email routing.
7. Final Payment
At this time we complete around 75% of the your Rackspace to Google Workspace Migration project and ask for final 50% payment.
8. Email Routing
Now as your base migration has been completed, we make the changes in your DNS to switch your domain’s email routing to Google Workspace and within a short period of time all new emails will start coming to your Google Workspace mailboxes.
If you are a geek, this is called Mail Exchanger Routing or MX Routing.
9. Delta Migration
Its weekend and now is the time to migrate last 30 days of emails, also your contacts and calendar events.
It doesn’t take us more than couple of hours to migrate last 30 days of emails, and all contacts and calendar.
10. Your Review
You get an email “Your data migration is completed”, please login in to your mailbox and confirm if things look perfect.
Mostly, there would not be any issues as we do this everyday, but worst case if there are any, don’t worry we know stuff well (very well) and can fix it in no time.
Contact us
Fill up the form and our Team will get back to you within 02 hours
Customer Success Story
I highly recommend using Googally for painless migrations, the time and money saved are worth 100 times what we paid.
The entire process was done from my phone while I was traveling with my family on vacation: it couldn't have been any easier.
Christophe Suchy | CEO | Caspertech | Addison TX
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about migrating to Google Workspace
That’s a great question.
We don’t want you to juggling around systems, or answering 100 odd questions to migrate from Rackspace to Google Workspace.
All we ask for is to provide some information (mentioned here) and that's it.
Seriously, that's it.
We do every damn required thing to migrate you from Rackspace to Google Workspace without a glitch.
Though we can’t pay for your trip, but feel free to make a trip to Hawaii after providing us required information.
You don’t need to worry about what's happening with your migration, it is all taken care by Google Workspace experts.
We use premium migration utilities to migrate your data which means migrating at blazing fast speed.
For users with mailbox size of less than 5 GB, we usually migrate them fully within a weekend, so they see all data in their Google Workspace mailbox when they login on Monday morning.
For your email superman users with mailbox size of more than 5 GB, our smart migration utility migrates data from latest to oldest. So when they login to their Google Workspace mailbox on Monday morning, they will have at least last couple of years of email.
Rest of their emails will keep on migrating behind the scenes, so you are kinda all set (unless you are really lagging behind and want to reply to that 6 year old email:).
Nothing is impossible.
If you are determined you can even go to the moon, so instead of asking “Can’t we do it by ourselves?” you should rather be asking “Should we do it ourselves”?
If you want to do it yourself, you can but you will need to put in a few days (or weeks) to learn the in and outs of Google Workspace migration, and have some patience to hit and try things.
So unless you are a student and want to learn things by investing a few days or weeks, it will make better business sense to hire us.
We do Google Workspace migrations every day as we make our living with it. Our years of learning and experience can help you migrate smoothly to Google Workspace within a weekend.
This will definitely save you substantial time, energy, money, and of course remove risk of losing your valuable data.
Thats not why you hired us, right?
Well, obviously there are some limitations where Gmail will reject to accept emails, think of cases where someone is trying to migrate an email with virus, or an email with an attachment larger than 50 MB (Gmail’s limit is 50 MB).
But other than these fair reasons, all your emails would go right into your Gmail just like cream cheese in a plain (toasted) bagel.
You can learn more about our detailed migration progress here : Google Workspace Migration Process
Communication is the key, you do not like to follow up, we get it, and we are on your side for it.
You will get access to our online project management tool where you would see all the project tasks along with their status listed, our team will keep updating it every few hours.
You don't need to spend time calling or emailing us, simply open the project link (from any device) to see the migration progress.
You can learn more about our detailed migration progress here : Google Workspace Migration Process.
Hmm, now we are talking!
Lets do it apple style.
This is the most easiest thing we ever created where we redefined the definition of simplicity.
If you want to migrate to Google Workspace without a glitch, contact us above (or simply click here) and we will provide you all information.
You aren't alone, smart people do have questions (a lot of em), so do two things for now :
1. Pat yourself on the back.
2. Feel free to contact us with all of your questions, doesn't matter if you end up hiring us or not, but rest assured we'll answer your questions in details (all of them).