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Re: Linode was down

#21

Post by jd007 »

jaibot wrote: post #18

That explains the pingdom notification. So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now. Edit: New Jersey data center.

I'm a bit turned off by their (Digital Ocean) features page, in the SSD section, where they implied that SATA means traditional spindle-based HDDs. I kind of expect a cloud server host to know the proper terminology for these things. It's probably an editor's mistake but still...

Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium (e.g. SATA)"

Re: Linode was down

#22

Post by ckeck »

jd007 wrote: post #21
jaibot wrote: post #18

That explains the pingdom notification. So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now. Edit: New Jersey data center.

I'm a bit turned off by their (Digital Ocean) features page, in the SSD section, where they implied that SATA means traditional spindle-based HDDs. I kind of expect a cloud server host to know the proper terminology for these things. It's probably an editor's mistake but still... Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a tradi…

They likely just called it out like that here because so many other hosting providers use that as standard terminology.

Re: Linode was down

#23

Post by JosephRedfern »

thekos wrote: post #16
JosephRedfern wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't having two independent name-servers supposed to prevent this kind of thing?

Appears that it cascaded across all of their nameservers. Seems like it could be an attack (remote or local DoS condition bug, since all users can create their own zones), or maybe just a random bug - hopefully they'll update us.

Weird!

Re: Linode was down

#24

Post by ciclista »

jaibot wrote: post #18

That explains the pingdom notification. So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now. Edit: New Jersey data center.

FYI I created a test account last Friday and got some of the worst service I've had in 10 years of hosting stuff online.

Re: Linode was down

#25

Post by jaibot »

ciclista wrote: post #24
jaibot wrote: post #18

That explains the pingdom notification. So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now. Edit: New Jersey data center.

FYI I created a test account last Friday and got some of the worst service I've had in 10 years of hosting stuff online.

I've had no problems with my tiny node in the few days I've had it - what problems did you run into, so I can be on the lookout?

Re: Linode was down

#26

Post by ciclista »

jaibot wrote: post #25
ciclista wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI I created a test account last Friday and got some of the worst service I've had in 10 years of hosting stuff online.

I've had no problems with my tiny node in the few days I've had it - what problems did you run into, so I can be on the lookout?

I didn't even get to create a "droplet", the instance kept failing. I contacted support about a refund (I created the account to work on a small personal project for the weekend) and I was given the run-around, "there were issues and they were working on it", then they told me it was probably my issue (I forgot to "fill in a field"), etc. etc. Took 3 days to get my money back.

I'm sure it was an outlier since I've seen a decent amount of positive reviews, but support was terrible, and I think the way a company handles situations like this pretty telling.

Re: Linode was down

#27

Post by idev247 »

jd007 wrote: post #21
jaibot wrote: post #18

That explains the pingdom notification. So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now. Edit: New Jersey data center.

I'm a bit turned off by their (Digital Ocean) features page, in the SSD section, where they implied that SATA means traditional spindle-based HDDs. I kind of expect a cloud server host to know the proper terminology for these things. It's probably an editor's mistake but still... Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a tradi…

Can't really judge a service by their marketing. A company might have kick-ass benchmarks but a shitty site. Look at Linode. Their site design looks like it's still 2005.
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