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depends on how many sites you have really, a dozen big sites are actually easier to move than 100+ little sites (unless they're super small and you can use the WHM built in moving tool)
for the most part you could merge entire servers. Depending on bandwidth usage you may be able to cut your hosting costs in at least half by realizing that current servers can handle twice the load the servers from 2-3 years ago could. Hard drive access speed is still pretty much the same limitation it used to be but has improved maybe a good 30% but using linux you can simply put things like your log files onto a different drive and do a few tricks to spread hard drive access across several drives. I generally put log files on 1 drive, DB's on another drive and site contents on 1 or 2 other drives.
You might also want to ask around about "private networks" and have something like 1 dedicated DB box with a private LAN setup between all the servers. Some hosts simply charge WAY too much for things like that though.
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