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Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by akl »

jackowayed wrote: post #8
theDoug wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have zero affiliation with the group, apart from being a casual user but http://wasitup.com/ has come in handy for me quite often. Even for free, it'll do a check 20 times an hour.

Pingdom also has a very good free plan. It's limited to one url, but for that URL, it's just as good as their paid plans. So you get checks from a ton of DC's, and it tracks response time as well as uptime.

It hasn't been well publicized after the original announcement (and isn't prominently placed on their plans page, either) but I've had great success with Cloudkick's free developer plan on my personal virt (which is still down..):

https://www.cloudkick.com/accounts/signup/developer/

CK sent me a text message as soon as my host went down earlier, which gave me time to file the ticket against Linode.

Only caveat - they don't provide a signed RPM, which can cause some administrative hardship for linux users using rpm-based distributions (most of the yum operations require you to add an extra cli option to allow working with unsigned rpm's), but it's a minor complaint given that their agent isn't mandatory and doesn't need a lot of updates.

Re: Power outage in Linode Fremont Datacenter

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Post by revicon »

initself wrote: post #37
thegyppo wrote: post #35

I still have 2/3 servers down, one of them is still "Powered off" in the console.

Same here.

And here as well. Am I justified in being pissed about this outage, or am I failing in my responsibilities by relying on a company like linode to keep my site up?
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