Cloud Accounts

[CTHOSTING]

Hello

From reading previous posts I understand that today is cloud launch day

Any Info

Regards

Chris

[CTHOSTING]

Well still no news or no one from Eukhost to answer my question

"We are coming up with 2 different solutions for Cloud Hosting. One would be based on VMWare which will be expensive and other would be Applogic. Both will go live on our website from 1st November 2009"

Was the Quote from the Chief Marketing officer on a previous forum post

So I just asked sales for any details on live chat , and got the very helpful respose below.

Danny: I guess we'll have to wait
Danny: new things do take some time to come out

Is there a problem with it now ?

Everything seems to have just gone quiet !!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris

[sam_m08]

Likewise thoughts Chris, it does seem to have gone suprisingly quiet, hopefully we`ll find out something soon.

[eUKhost.com]

Hi Chris / Sam,

Our launch got slightly delayed due to some technical questions we had related to RAID. Initially we decided that RAID1 would be sufficient on these Dell R710 servers, but looking at the performance of these servers, we realised that RAID1 won't be sufficient.

We have ordered some RAID5 cards and additional stock of SAS drives. I will get ETA from Dell tomorrow as they will be sending Air shipment with top priority.

I apologise for the delay, but we want to ensure we make no mistakes with our first cloud.

[CTHOSTING]

Thanks for the update

It is good to know that you are making efforts to make sure things are perfect.

I just desperate to get on and have a go, but waiting is better if it means it is for the best

Regards

Chris

[eUKhost.com]

I know what must be going on with you over there.

We want to make this wait worth with the right solution. We have thought of all possible problems and ensured perfect solution for all those. I think our Cloud solution should be perfect!

[sam_m08]

Thanks for the update, i just dont want to upgrade from reseller to a VPS or Semi Dedicated yet, because it`ll be a change of nameservers and dedicated ip address, and then ill have to move again to the cloud and go through the ip change etc again, so just hanging on, I hope it`ll be this side of Christmas though

[sihost]

I apologise for the delay, but we want to ensure we make no mistakes with our first cloud.

I'd rather thorough testing is carried out and all kinks ironed out than to rush it out. The last thing we would need is to launch the cloud, move over to it....everything is great then POOF! BANG! and someone says, "shit didn't think about that" and our clients go "server is down, when are we moving to that fantastic new cloud you've been raving about...and I'm going ermmm, yeh, soon...trust me"

So, yep, REALLY pleased to see you are taking the time you need to get it perfect and understand too that is what we need. Good work. Keep us updated.

[CTHOSTING]

Hello
Just wondered if we had any updates etc
Has the new hardware arrived, now in testing phase etc etc

Many thanks

CHris

[eUKhost.com]

Hi Chris,

I have checked order status from Dell - Order Status and it seems the drives and RAID cards will arrive in the morning. We will take 2 more days to to launch our first cloud once the drives and RAID cards arrive tomorrow morning.

[CTHOSTING]

Hello

Was wondering how it was all going now ??

Did the drives etc arrive ok, and are we now in a testing phase

Regards

Chris

[eUKhost.com]

Hello

Was wondering how it was all going now ??

Did the drives etc arrive ok, and are we now in a testing phase

Regards

Chris

Hi Chris,

Drives and RAID cards arrived yesterday and servers have been setup today. I will update this thread once we are ready for the launch.

[baxtermedia]

Just wondered if there was any news on this yet? Is there a new launch date yet?

Best

Dale

[RichardS]

Waiting to purchase an account with eukhosting, much depends on the details of the cloud hosting options.

[eUKhost.com]

Launch of our first cloud has been delayed due to incompatibility of Applogic software with the new Intel Nehalem CPUs. They have launched a beta version for us to continue our testing work, but we will need to wait for another 2 weeks to get the updated version 2.8.

There's a major change in new the new generation Intel CPUs. Some major changes need to be made in Applogic software for proper virtualization of the new generation CPUs.

[RichardS]

Thank-you eukhost for that update. Frustrating though it is for all of us, it's better to get all the pieces in place, rather than fire off too early.

Hope all goes well with the testing. Looks like you have a cue of customers ready for the cloud ...
Best of luck

[sam_m08]

I think realistically its not going to be happening this year, but I guess that was too be expected, which is fine. The Christmas month is always the tester month for uptime, would have been nice to be on the Cloud by then, but I still feel confident the package im on now will get through the month with no hiccups.

[John]

Hello,

I would say that is a fair assessment. Even if we are ready before Christmas, we won't be migrating customers over what is the biggest retailing period of the year.