I gave up. I submitted an inquiry on their sales form for dedicated and got no response, I contacted their support and got "we'll let you know." They've at leas

I gave up. I submitted an inquiry on their sales form for dedicated and got no response, I contacted their support and got "we'll let you know." They've at least added nvme storage for instances, but in at least their Dallas data center the iops suck. In Newark it's a bit better. If you've got a bunch of servers at a linode data center and want bare metal ones, I ended up just looking at what other hosts are peered with their nearest exchange. Our servers are in Dallas and Vultr, Equinix via IBM Cloud, and Servermania all had peering to them through a local exchange at infomart or nearby. We ended up moving database servers to those bare metal services and connecting over wan to our linode ones. Latency less than 5ms. Linode also contacted us to ask why our monthly usage halved. We told them, they offered no alternatives.