paas2.tx is definitely Texas; the Amsterdam servers are ams instead of tx. They're doing a lot of major changes to the whole system; apparently hardware changes as well.
Kind of makes me wonder, if there's this much trouble handling just the MODx users for the Cloud, what's it going to be like if things expand?
When I was working in a University of Miami medical school clinic, we had one small basement room for medical records, with records piled up so badly that the fire department was handing out citations like candy. Then the clinic's fearless leaders were boasting about how their new marketing push would be bringing in thousands of patients... um, where were we supposed to put their medical records? Some wag - not me, I was the one asking the questions, troublemaker that I am - suggested using the two new mammography vans he was also boasting about at the same meeting