Is there any ETA on the Fremont RAM upgrade? THe original post said it more information would be posted in a week or two, it's now been three and we've heard nothing. I understand that things happen and there are unexpected variables, however, it would be nice to at least get a post saying "hey, we ran into some unforeseen technical difficulties and we don't anticipate an update on the matter for X weeks now."

Thanks

On the IRC channel it has been said that the post will be coming up within the next few days, and they didn't get it done before due to some delays that will make much more sense once the blog post comes up...

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lakridserne
Serverfruit - shared and managed VPS hosting, SSL certificates and domains
Awesome servers rented from Linode!

This is wild speculation on my part, but I suspect some sort of migration of old servers housed in Hurricane Electric's Fremont 1 facility to HE's Fremont 2 facility (where I would guess their newer Fremont servers are) is behind the delay. I've been to both facilities and Fremont 1 is very low on space, and it would make sense to consolidate in one data center, even if they are just down the road from one another...

At least, I hope that's what it is, and not something that involves any sort of bad news for those of us who like where we are...

No bad news, all good news. We're working on the delays as best we can. Stay tuned!

This has been the speculation (and hope) in other threads on the forum.

Can we get a less vague status update with some kind of reasonable timeframe? I've been planning an upgrade for my client's website based around your initial estimates (1-2 weeks. It has been nearly a month). My client wants to know when the site will be upgraded to faster servers and I don't have an answer for him.

I waiting too for my memory upgrade !

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I am still hoping the delay is due to the Ameristralia servers being shipped from Fremont across the pacific to Australia where they belong. Meanwhile still loving my new improved Tokyo instance, at least until it gets wiped out by earthquake/godzilla.

Unforeseen technical difficulties resulting in the rollout taking longer than anticipated are fine.

Complete lack of any official update regarding the progress after nearly four weeks, when the rollout (or, at the very least, more information) was initially promised within two, is not.

Solution: Move your Linode to another DC for a few weeks more while they get the last quirks worked out.

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lakridserne
Serverfruit - shared and managed VPS hosting, SSL certificates and domains
Awesome servers rented from Linode!

Another announcement, no info on Fremont...

Sorry I don't have any more information, other than we're working as hard as we can on it and hope to enable the upgrades very soon.

-Chris

You guys realize that the customers can't even migrate plans in the entire fremont DC right now? it just says we need to accept our free upgrade before we can migrate.

Yes, of course we realize. You can work around that by opening a ticket and we'll get you fixed up.

-Chris

Many of us are geographically tied to Fremont.

Sigh.

Remember when Linode used to be the cool nerdy VPS provider that was transparent about this sort of thing?

Starting to make me uncomfortable / wonder what it is, exactly, that Linode doesn't wan't us to know.