Till this blog is running on the new server. I can't wait.
I was in Dallas today and met with Shawn Devlin of
Sprocket Data, a Dallas hosting company. I had spoken with them previously for work, but the decision to host with them was made based upon their pricing and the look of their corporate culture on their website.
And I must say that their website didn't lie. They are very open and friendly. Last week Mr. Devlin gave me and
Brent a tour of their data center. Quite the dog & pony for a simple colocation customer.
Today I stopped into their office, it turns out NetworkIP & SprocketData are officing in the same building, they are up on the 6th, NetIP is on the second floor. In talking with Mr. Devlin I learned a few new things about page ranking.
At the end of my visit I verified "visiting" hours for the data center, 5:30pm. We were having an afternoon meeting that was going to run longer than that. Which is why I brought an overnight bag, just in case I had to take care of the server Saturday morning. To my wife's delight Mr. Devlin offered to have the server taken down to the data center for me. Gina had been in Longview all week for training and was excited to see me, so staying away one more night wasn't acceptible.
I joked with Mr. Devlin that they "saved my marriage", playing along he said that "marriage counseling" is just one of their many services.
Well, my concerns about my inexperience in configuring ethernet card manually (after install) were correct.
I got a voicemail from their head data center system admnistrator, Shane, informing me that the server is powered up and plugged in but that they are unable to ping it. I had missed his call (T-Mobile service in Dallas isn't great.) and already shutdown my laptop, this means that I will have to get with the techs early in the morning to get the server online.
Especially since I am now back in Austin and don't want to drive up there.
Well, pretty tired from the early morning start. Time to sleep and dream of nerd stuff.
Laterz
Not sure if it is going to come to that, yet. I hope it won't. I just got an email from our hosting/collocation, Sprocket Networks company that they were acquired recently, by AppServe Technologies. The email states that the rates will stay the
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