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Happy Linode customer, who gets hacked constantly and lies about it... Hmmmmmmmmm....
Excuse me? I've never been cracked, and chances are I know/care more about security than the average user here. Either you've misidentified me or you're lying about me.
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Excuse me? I've never been cracked, and chances are I know/care more about security than the average user here. Either you've misidentified me or you're lying about me.
Linode gets hacked, not you. Didn't mean to insult you or your bulk copy/pasting skills of reposting a link on this thread.
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> The DMCA prescribes a dispute policy, that allows the accused to refute the evidence provided by the accusers. No, it doesn't. The DMCA provides both a safe harbor for hosts against infringement liability (the take down notice procedure) and a safe harbor for hosts against any liability they might have for taking down content (the counter-notice procedure), but neither of these procedures are strictly mandatory, th…
Your conclusion is wrong. If a host does not follow the entire OCILLA playbook in every case, unconditionally, across the board, the host no longer qualifies for any safe harbor whatsoever. Then it's open season on copyright violations. Think $400,000 per song style open season. The real liability threat remains third parties, not customers, and disregarding the prescribed counter procedure is handing them the keys t…
The 512(c) safe harbor rules are clearly written in a transaction-specific manner rather than the way you describe, and every case I've seen on them has focussed on whether they were followed as relevant to the transaction and not addressed whether the host followed them "unconditionally, across the board". So, I think your conclusion is wrong.
Adding to the commentary on here with something not so gushing: * kernels lag terribly behind the distributions meaning you're wide open sometimes. * can't resize or add storage * no freebsd support or custom kernels * VM availability problems. If you want to have another box, you aren't guaranteed to get one. * no IPv6 * somewhat shonky security reputation. * cant deliver to yahoo mail from their AMS2 IPs I've been…
Actually you can run custom kernels on DO VMs, in fact I have a machine doing that right now. In fact if push came to shove I reckon you'd even be able to get Windows to boot on a DO VM; it would be difficult but do-able.
Got a $20 credit for my trouble (good PR!), and then promptly moved on to a provider that actually supports my needs.
I've been using DO for about 5 months now, and love it. I still host my main websites other places (dreamhost, who, despite some issues, has been consistent in improvement, and is fair in prices), and I use DO for stuff like mumble servers, a few games, as a ssh proxy from less secure locations, and as some as a shared shell with friends for various skullduggery and fun. Very impressed with DO's service and price, bu…
I just make a "Skeleton" instance that has all the hardening stuff already on it, then clone all my new machines off of this instance.
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Do you actually have evidence of this or is this an off the cuff statement? Having worked for some big hosts myself, i know how hard it can be to make changes once you have people using your platform. I suspect DO are in a similar situation and are looking to make a big leap forward with new growth leveraging their existing brand. I have no real evidence of this, but it feels like a sensible course of action. No one…
Amongst other obscure jobs I've been employed to dig people out of the crap many a time in the hosting sector so yes I'm pretty close to this sort of stuff. Normally in these situations, much as they do with DO already with disparate DC capabilities, you deploy infrastructure side-by-side and slowly port it over from one system to another. Developing the capabilities isn't really a big problem even if you build it ve…
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celebrity photos are huge, huge business. sites pop up all the time trying to monetize papparazzi shots and hosting providers have to deal with all sorts of fallout from anyone with a vested interested in the intellectual property or famous name. these people do not give a shit about the streisand effect. they are going after their money.
So in that case DO receives a DMCA takedown, they comply, and let the customer deal with it? Or you're saying they file malicious lawsuits against the hosting provider and courts happily allow these suits to proceed and don't award fees to a neutral hosting provider?
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Amongst other obscure jobs I've been employed to dig people out of the crap many a time in the hosting sector so yes I'm pretty close to this sort of stuff. Normally in these situations, much as they do with DO already with disparate DC capabilities, you deploy infrastructure side-by-side and slowly port it over from one system to another. Developing the capabilities isn't really a big problem even if you build it ve…
What's your thoughts on entrants like buyvm and ramnode. Although small, they seem to be doing things right.
Ramnode absolutely sucks. I can pull maybe 100k/sec off them if I'm lucky from UK in their US and NL data centres which is abysmal. Cancelled my account the day after opened it.
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I've found them to be a great service.
That doesn't really say anything about the comment you're replying to. You can be happy with a service regardless of their honesty, especially if you're not aware of any dishonesty that's occurring.
I won't top it up again but as long as you know they're somewhat dishonest and reckless with customer data then it's okay to use for stupid stuff like distributed builds or something (provided the source code you're building isn't private/secret/proprietary).