linode-64 - waiting for activation

There's a very good chance unless: A) caker has a hangover, or B) you entered crap values in your registration information.

i must say, in my experience B happens far more often than A… but you never know.

my guess is that you'll get it sometime today.

I must say I'm not impressed with service or support at this point. I have paid over 24 hours ago and yet I have no login and no access however they have my money. Repeated emails to billing and support go unanswered. Looking else where as I have no need of this crap… :-(

As a happy Linode user, I must say its definitely worth the wait. It seems like a lot of people have been complaining about the wait lately. When I signed up back in June/July I think I waited less than 12 hours.

Caker really should remove the "All accounts are activated within hours." text from the sign-up page…

I guess "hours" doesn't mean "less than 24 hours" though :twisted:

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/tn/flood.html

I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt however somebody has to be there…

The only bad thing it's Redhat…. ugh!

http://www.tektonic.net/vds.php?op=plans

Heh the slow response actually caused me to look some more. Ain't free market grand! :-)

See ya…

I hope this wait to get my linode is not an indication of delays getting support…

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@untitled9:

As a happy Linode user, I must say its definitely worth the wait.

I'm a happy linode user myself. My wait has been less than an hour, last week, for my activation.

I don't have any complaint to make about this service.

@xland:

The only bad thing it's Redhat…. ugh!

http://www.tektonic.net/vds.php?op=plans

Heh the slow response actually caused me to look some more. Ain't free market grand! :-)

I think the other bad thing is:

> Unlike other providers we do not set a limit (aka. contention ratio) for number of accounts per server. We have developed a much better method which provides excellent performance for all accounts.

Their method is "CPU Priority". I don't mean that this is bad, but with this clause, they can overload the server anytime and YOU will be the "victim"

You guys are all set. I apologize for the delay.

-Chris

Thanks for the update - much appreciated!

Regards,

Signed up 24hrs ago - any ideas when I'll be activated?

Rob

Ok - 26hrs and I'm up :)

Rob

Ok, in the spirit of this section.

This should be interesting.

I signed up at 4:45am on a Saturday morning.

Let's see who is awake at this hour, :lol:

Update.

Well I got an activation notice after 6 hours on a Saturday morning. So that's good.