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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...
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...
If you've got a bunch of servers at a linode data center and want bare metal ones, I ended up just looking at what other hosts are peered with their nearest exchange. Our servers are in Dallas and Vultr, Equinix via IBM Cloud, and Servermania all had peering to them through a local exchange at infomart or nearby. We ended up moving database servers to those bare metal services and connecting over wan to our linode ones. Latency less than 5ms.
Linode also contacted us to ask why our monthly usage halved. We told them, they offered no alternatives.
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 waiting for a new Linode to pop up.
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...
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.
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...
I gave up. I submitted an inquiry on their sales form for dedicated and got no response, I contacted their support and got "we'll let you know." They've at least added nvme storage for instances, but in at least their Dallas data center the iops suck. In Newark it's a bit better. If you've got a bunch of servers at a linode data center and want bare metal ones, I ended up just looking at what other hosts are peered w…
I went with Vultr (as you mentioned as well) and couldn't be happier.
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...
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!
Linode is fantastic and I have loved them for 10+ years. Digital Ocean doesn't host here, nearest is Singapore. Vultr does but I have had poor experiences with them. The other options are AWS and Google which are potentially unbounded expenses which is hard to sell to clients that already see $12/m (aud) as a cost sink, no matter what the server+service will save them in seat time.
There are of course local hosts but they're either oversold cpanel hosts or comparatively expensive (3-10x the price for the same hardware).
I guess it just feeds from my existential dread of being a small fish where if any one of these upstream providers decide "oh, no we flagged that account because of [black box reason], sorry!", you can be out a lively hood with no real recourse.
Guess it just kinda sucks to be at what feels like the end of the long tail of infrastructure.