Update: Never mind, I thought I was in Fremont but I am in Dallas on host29, so my upgrade is a few weeks out.

Just in time! I've been very happy with Linode's service, but to be honest I was thinking of switching away. I realized recently that for only a few dollars more a month, other hosting companies were offering more powerful dedicated servers. Now that the Linode is more powerful, everything is awesome! I'm going to be changing distros (gentoo->Ubuntu) and web servers (apache->lighttpd) soon, so everything will be more awesome. Thanks Linode.

Just bumping this up as it's been a couple weeks since the last update. Any news on the Dallas front?

Regards,

MrP

New hosts are leaving for Dallas on Monday.

If all goes according to schedule, we're hoping to start migrations by the weekend.

-Tom

Not to sound impatient, but it's the next Monday and the weekend is over. Are there any news about the Dallas linodes?

Greetings (and thanks for a good service.)

Here's an edited excerpt from Monday's IRC channel logs. It's not good I'm afraid I'm dying for my upgrade!

15:38 < caker> Daniel H. - Monday April 16th, 2007; 1:05 PM CDT
15:38 < caker> We are anticipating that your cage will be built by the end of this week. An eta on when the new servers will be racked and online is still being determined.
15:38  * caker fumes
16:15 < tierra> takes one to two months to approve the cages, and an additional 2 weeks past the date that all hardware arrives to actually get it put together... that's pretty sad
16:15 < caker> tierra: s/hardware arrives/contract signed/, but yeah...
16:15 < caker> out of sight (no customer hardware on premises), out of mind I guess
16:16 < caker> there's way more to the story, but not worth going into
16:18 < tasaro> they *should* have started the cage when the contract was signed... and I'm guessing they sub that out anyway
16:18 < caker> what pissed me off more than anything are all the broken promises/commitments
16:18 < caker> If they told me it would have taken this long, I would be more understanding
16:19 < caker> tasaro has a good idea: build the cage around our racked servers :)
16:19  * caker 's mood: bleh
16:20 < caker> sorry guys...
16:20 < tasaro> When caker called the sales rep on Thursday, he had the balls to tell him we'd be online sometime on Friday
16:20 < caker> in his words: "Tomorrow"

Just so everyone's clear: All of our hardware arrived at ThePlanet in Dallas last week. They are building out our new cage (woohoo!) and have told us it will be completed by this Friday. Then, they need to install our hardware (various console / power controllers / switch, + 19 servers), so I guess add a few business days for that.

So, that puts us into the middle of next week for the new hosts to be online. Once ThePlanet racks our servers we're ready to go on our end.

-Chris

Chris, i assume you've looked around, is there anyone out there with better customer service than ThePlanet? or is the next step just managing your own hardware?

i use another ISP who used to have their hardware at ThePlanet. they eventually left ThePlanet because of poor service and picked up their own space at a data center where they could kick their own hardware.

wonderful service.

Almost had a heart-attack... LJs RSS feed redisplayed this thread just now and I was thinking "What, again?!!! I don't believe it!" but I guess it was the edit of the head article that cause the RSS feeder to redisplay it. I was right to not believe it

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

Yeah, I just had the same thing and thought "what the...?"

This company does nothing but make me happy!

Virtual beats actual! I have a very powerful server for very little money!