One thing I don't care who you know or what you do, being an IT manager and getting the hardware, then testing are entirely different.
SE should have used pre-orders and 1.0 accounts as a baseline period.
HOWEVER! I also know for a fact it's more than just setting up new servers a) it can take a week to get the hardware, then getting everything setup in an 8 hour work day, then installing the software, networking the server to the other servers and testing it for stability does take quite a bit of time
the main problem with all of this is: LACK OF COMMUNICATION
We get a response from SE 8-36 hours after the problem occurred Some factors aren't adding up: no community representative to talk to us and deliver news faster from the dev's and minimal responses from the dev's