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

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Post by fuckstick »

ubermonkey wrote: post #23
eatonphil wrote: post #2

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'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

> I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

Eh, what? Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVHcloud already exist. The first 2 at least have feature parity I thought.

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

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Post by webmobdev »

ubermonkey wrote: post #23
eatonphil wrote: post #2

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'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

Switch to Pair - https://www.pair.com/ - they are older than Linode and have a great reputation. (PS: However, I am not sure if they have been acquired by another company now. The "old" Pair had a sterling reputation, and I can vouch for that as a former customer.)

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

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Post by ubermonkey »

esskay wrote: post #36
ubermonkey wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

Out of curiosity what is a new competitor going to offer that the existing well established ones like DigitaoOcean, Vultr, etc arent?

I would much rather deal with a human-scale firm than a giant one. That alone would get me to switch, even at greater cost.

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

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Post by mekster »

esskay wrote: post #36
ubermonkey wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

Out of curiosity what is a new competitor going to offer that the existing well established ones like DigitaoOcean, Vultr, etc arent?

DigitalOcean doesn't have much Asian presence, Linode's backup doesn't support non default file system like zfs, DO / Linode don't have HDD block storage like Vultr does (which I think is a hidden gem you can't realize until you go add one as it's not mentioned in the pricing page) that can be a very nice option to throw backup data in at 40GB/$.

Vultr's CPU isn't as good as the other 2 by the look of sysbench, even for high frequency types.

Those 3 vendors only have 2 or 3 backup slots which can be kind of unreliable if you didn't notice data loss over a weekend and weekly backup can be too far apart.

Hetzner is almost perfect if they have a bit more location. Very cheap, very high performing, daily backup with plenty of slots but no HDD block storage.

Sometimes Amazon Lightsail can be a decent option as they have 7 daily backup slots, free bandwidth is comparable to the others and prices aren't bad except their CPU suck.

Small things but none are perfect.

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

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Post by ubermonkey »

webmobdev wrote: post #72
ubermonkey wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

Switch to Pair - https://www.pair.com/ - they are older than Linode and have a great reputation. (PS: However, I am not sure if they have been acquired by another company now. The "old" Pair had a sterling reputation, and I can vouch for that as a former customer.)

I'm paying for a few small Linux VMs. Pair has nothing all price competitive.

They're also now part of a giant media company (!), so yeah, pass.

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

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Post by cheriot »

mdasen wrote: post #68
ubermonkey wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

I don't think that will happen with Linode (but I certainly could be wrong). When Rackspace bought Slicehost, people didn't really know what the future was going to look like. At this point, we've seen AWS/GCP/Azure and Akamai wants to have their own "run your apps with us" system. Unlike when Rackspace bought Slicehost, Linode probably isn't even the leader in its niche. That's probably DigitalOcean. Akamai probably…

Akamai looks at Cloudflare's valuation with envy (and some contempt because Akamai has the larger edge network). Definitely agree Linode was purchased as a growth opportunity.

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

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Post by doctor_eval »

texasbigdata wrote: post #48
prng2021 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, what caused the poor experience with Vultr?

Not OP but just a guess, vultr was founded 2014 and linode is 2003. Obviously not a proxy for quality, but it’s one data point as to potentially why.

Was going to ask the same. I’ve used vultr for years and found them rock solid, and have had good support when needed.

They also just opened a DC in Melbourne.

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

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Post by jaachan »

pbowyer wrote: post #18
j45 wrote: 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.

Normally I'd agree, but... Have you seen today's status ? https://status.upcloud.com/ 6 hour downtime and no updates

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

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Post by bombcar »

zzzeek wrote: post #64
boplicity wrote: post #34

FYI: Linode says that most people can fix this by enabling "Network Helper." You'll then likely need to reboot your server. It worked for me! https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-helper/#individua...

this.... replaces the use of DHCP with a static file rewriter on boot, OK, why is this recommended in general, should we expect DHCP to have ongoing issues that their "network helper" would not ?

For the vast majority of people, a Linode is just a virtual server that sits on a static IP like a fat toad.

This network helper just assigns that static IP instead of assuming DHCP will find it.

You could turn it off later I guess.

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

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Post by duskwuff »

webmobdev wrote: post #72
ubermonkey wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.

Switch to Pair - https://www.pair.com/ - they are older than Linode and have a great reputation. (PS: However, I am not sure if they have been acquired by another company now. The "old" Pair had a sterling reputation, and I can vouch for that as a former customer.)

Pair is absolutely not price-competitive. Pair's "Starter I" plan is $30/mo, for 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB storage, and 500 GB transfer. Linode's most similar plan ("Linode 2 GB") is $10/mo, and includes 2 TB transfer.
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