i THINK its ready to roll from 1st of feb

So is the new datacentre in operation?

any new deals?

i guess i was wrong i thought i read 1st of feb there aiming for somewhere



http://www.theplanet.com/about/releases/01052005.html

The eternal question !...

I asked them yesterday if it was going live today and they said they are running a little behind and will update us when it will be open.

As soon as we are ready to bring servers online, everybody will know.

so...still no word on the new DC?

I guess we could keep our fingers crossed as this is the start of the new week and in a couple of hours time, the new work day would officially begin. They seems to be in the habit of coming out with big announcements at the end of the work day.. I guess things gets more exciting with the suspsense.

considering the rumours started with the new DC opening dec 1st 2004, im certainly not going to be holding my breath for too long!

Halfway in to the month and I'm not sure how much longer I can hold out for another system here....

If you need a new server, buy one. There's still space in the other 2 datacenters yet.

I have no doubts of that fact. My interests lies in possible coming deals to be had with the expected opening. I'm nearly ready for 2 more boxes at this point but I'm holding out and working the pants off my xeons as best I can until that time. I believe that there is a good possibility for some kind of sweet deal to existing clients in the works and so I'm standing in line with the rest of them awaiting news of the activation.

It's so close now.

Please hang on in there.

Let's see who would be Rack 1 Server 1 on the new DC

Still waiting for the installation of those extra exercise bikes fitted with dynamos for backup power?

All they have left to do is child-lock all the power sockets to keep klaude from sticking in metal objects

*ducks and runs*

I want Rack 1 Server 1

Thats fine, I'll take Rack 0 Server 0
In the world of Binary, 0 comes before 1.

That's where you lose

I'm hanging thanh....I'm hanging. Something nice for existing clients would be a "good thing" for those who wait. Patience can be a virtue.

They'd prefer you to buy your server now, rather than in a sale though

If you business needs it, buy it, if not, then what's the hurry about getting the new DC open?

It's a careful balance of needs vs wants. I need it but what I want is worth the wait. Nothing is suffering at this point but it's getting close. Business is business for all parties involved but there is no existing "grand-father" clause in this datacenter. So I trust that patience will be my virtue.

I have to be honest, I don't care about new sales. I can't afford another server or any added services, and the new deal is unlikely to be better than the current one SM is giving me.

are there going to be any live cams in the new data centre?

We already have them.

whast the link to them plz?

Yes we need Links

it'll help curve our anxiety problem. lol

but are they installed?

They are for internal use only at the moment. Sorry for the tease.

gb0rk's dancing within range of them. for your sanity SM/TP have restricted access to internally only

Wise decision on behalf of TP, else they might get hit with a few bills for therapy.

you guys should of made a documentry called "The Making Of The New DC" and shown the world what really happeneds to get a DC up and running, with servers blowing up here and there, crazzed techs running round try to fix everything, could of been a big hit at the cinemas, no acting required either

The price of one ServerMatrix machine..... $250
The wage paid to one Network Technician..... $180/day
Getting to the see the technician freak out with the opening of a new datacenter......PRICELESS!

compliments of RaynServ Hosting

That's it. That's done it.

Police time. I'm calling again.

We all understand. It would be horrible to see a sledge hammer in the server room.

yeah, me too. i got a box with SM right now and i want to get another. i'm holding on for the new DC open and maybe a new deal.

anyway, i have no need but will love to get another one.

I'm sure there will be lots of deals to inaugerate the new DC, companies love to celebrate these sorts of events with more sales and a bigger marketshare

I found a stash of pictures we had taken of our D2 facility a while back yesterday. I'll try to aget approval and have them posted here. The netcams do not do our datacenter justice. I know it's not D5, however, I thought these pictures were great. I'll try to get them posted for the folks who are not local to us and want to see how pretty our datacenter is.

More pretty than those pictures of DC2 and DC4 posted on that site?

Of course those photos were more closeups than large scale views of the datacenter. Though I remember there were quite a few pictures of a few of the NOC employees at their desks

That would be cool. Will there be lots of pictures of DC5 available once it is opened? Can you get any pictures of the progress of setting it up?

Is there somewhere I can go to see what the sale prices where the last time a DS (oh god now I sound like everyone else around here) opened?

I am not sure if you could but I did get a Celeron 2.4 when they had the last Datacenter opened. Here is the pricing from my ticket :-



Oops, that is $10 higher than what they are offering now

Yeah, that really isn't getting me wet.

(I can't believe I just said that)

I have a 2.4 Celly from a couple of months after D4 opened. $49/month

Now I'm wet.

Will this sale include Insomnia gameservers?

But was that with $0 setup or something higher.

I remember paying for the $299/setup for that machine and got the prices down to $59/mth which I am paying today.



LOL! Well, at that time the beauty of the deal was they waived the setup fees for the machine or else it would have been higher. Things were a little more expensive when that datacenter came about.

Ah yes, Eddy, that was with $299 in setup fees. It was $89 with $0 at the time.

Ouch! Why am I paying more than others