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Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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I can still login to the backend and to my vm through Lish but my websites are down. (I'm in Dallas)

edit: followed the instructions in this link mentioned upthread and rebooted, that solved it for me https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-helper/#individua...

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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post #9

That’s too bad. Which other vps hosts are folks using these days besides aws/azure/gc? If anyones thinking of switching to digitalocean, I’m currently switching linode from digitalocean who had an unforgivable, catastrophic loss of vm. Digitalocean also prevebts customers from downloading disk image backups offsite for any kind of adult DR. Linode lets you download backup images right from the admin console.

I was thinking on moving to Hetzner (from Digital Ocean) - now that they have/will have a data center in Virginia....but i have heard iffy things about hetzner (some people are happy, others not so much). I should clarify, i'm only thinking on moving due to costs (not because i have encountered any ops or support issues). The stuff that i host is not as essential, and could do with slightly lower costs. ;-)

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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post #6

Arrgh! :( Just this week I needed to do some emergency rearranging of personal infrastructure, and moved one nameserver to Linode Fremont, while the other nameserver is in Linode Dallas. I was fully aware that I needed a more diverse long-term solution, but I figured "What are the chances that both Fremont and Dallas will go down in the next week or two?" Sorry, folks. I hate that my dangerous flirting with Murphy's…

For whatever it's worth, since it was a DHCP problem, I was able to manually configure the static IPs and get the hosts back up. The last incoming connections logged before the outage were around ~ 6:24:00 am MDT (about one hour ago). I guess that's when my server needed to renew the DHCP lease and couldn't.

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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Off topic: any updates on Linode's Bare Metal service? It's been 2-years since it's been announced as "Coming Soon" and I haven't seen any updates. https://web.archive.org/web/20201116142627/https://www.linod...

https://www.linode.com/products/bare-metal/ —still prefaced with "coming soon" but it looks like you can "create your build".

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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post #9

That’s too bad. Which other vps hosts are folks using these days besides aws/azure/gc? If anyones thinking of switching to digitalocean, I’m currently switching linode from digitalocean who had an unforgivable, catastrophic loss of vm. Digitalocean also prevebts customers from downloading disk image backups offsite for any kind of adult DR. Linode lets you download backup images right from the admin console.

I'm using UpCloud who are good, but a bit more expensive than Linode or DigitalOcean.

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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They were just bought by Akamai so unfortunately things like this are bound to happen if they are trying to integrate with Akamai the way they'd need to successfully keep growing. I'm not talking just software integration but process and people integration as well. We'll see I guess!

I don't think many users will be affected by dhcp outage. Most linodes have fixed IPs. Mine don't seem to be affected

For Linode Ubuntu 22.04 installations, at least, the default seems to be DHCP, even if the IP address is fixed. And I certainly wouldn't have thought anything about this, since even when using fixed IP addresses, I'm in the habit of using DHCP to provide a central source of IP address truth for my networks, to ease the pain of the inevitable renumbering.

Re: Linode Outage in Dallas, Fremont, Atlanta, Newark, and Toronto Data Centers

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post #11

I can still login to the backend and to my vm through Lish but my websites are down. (I'm in Dallas) edit: followed the instructions in this link mentioned upthread and rebooted, that solved it for me https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-helper/#individua...

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