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Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

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Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#71
Hrmm, 25%?

I purchased the Linode 512 package a while ago... and installed an Archlinux image and had it use 100% of the storage capacity. Now, Linode's manager is reporting that I have 80% full... (instead of 75%, as this post would have it)

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#72

Hrmm, 25%? I purchased the Linode 512 package a while ago... and installed an Archlinux image and had it use 100% of the storage capacity. Now, Linode's manager is reporting that I have 80% full... (instead of 75%, as this post would have it)

If you had x disk space before, now you have 1.25x. That means your current usage is x / 1.25x = 0.8.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#73

Hrmm, 25%? I purchased the Linode 512 package a while ago... and installed an Archlinux image and had it use 100% of the storage capacity. Now, Linode's manager is reporting that I have 80% full... (instead of 75%, as this post would have it)

Nope - 80% is correct.

20 GB + 25% = 25 GB

20 GB / 25 GB = 80% used.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Linode in Newark has not had network issues since last year. Acquaintance has a large deployment there with 100.0% availability. Positive this is not problems with your stack or monitoring?

No, it isn't. In addition to using Pingdom, we are continuously monitoring availability from multiple different locations (these scripts also do DNS switching). Every time we detect an issue, we contact Linode and many times they confirm network issues (sometimes internal, sometimes upstream). Just two days back they confirmed one internal outage. See this screenshot: http://imgur.com/jYzuD Almost every time we conta…

I am pretty happy with Linode for the most part and haven't experienced many issues. However when we have had issues, diagnosed the issue and filed a ticket we get always get told it is a known issue and "Apologize for inconvenience".

Why do I have to contact them to be told they are having an issue? Why can't they let me know asap so I can mitigate any problems they are having.

The last issue we had was their backup system was failing and by the time we discovered it, it had been broken for days.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#75
post #72

Hrmm, 25%? I purchased the Linode 512 package a while ago... and installed an Archlinux image and had it use 100% of the storage capacity. Now, Linode's manager is reporting that I have 80% full... (instead of 75%, as this post would have it)

If you had x disk space before, now you have 1.25x. That means your current usage is x / 1.25x = 0.8.

Yep, that was a math fail by me. I realized shortly after posting that - but not in time enough to remove the comment. Sorry.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#76
post #59

Well, my experience with Linode started well: good price, great interface, etc. Until somebody unrelated to me sent spam containing a URL pointing to one of my web sites. A recipient complained to Linode. Linode opened a ticket around 2am. At 6am, they simply shutdown my VPS becasue I didn't answer the ticket! I got the message a few hours later when I woke up. I f you want to take any website hosted on Linode down,…

If you don't want your Linode taken down, you know what to do. Reply to abuse tickets!

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#77

I absolutely love Linode. I made the HORRIBLE mistake of using vps.net for over a year (from September 09 to September 10) and it was honestly the worst hosting experience of my life (and I keep an eye on them, still as bad as ever) so when I switched to Linode I was expecting more of the same, in over 8 months I have never had a problem, I've submitted 1 support ticket and that was because I needed help enabling bac…

VPS.NET was the worst VPS service I've ever tried. By far. It's hard to convey how bad and unreliable they were. Friends who tried VPS.NET had nothing but headaches as well, so it wasn't just me.

Couldn't agree more. I thought I was an outlier when I signed up for VPS.net and for the first 4 days experienced and outage every day and eventually one that took the site down for 2 days. The support was garbage as well, constantly going through the whole Level 1/Level 2 transitions which is almost unusable for such a technical service.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#78
post #59

Well, my experience with Linode started well: good price, great interface, etc. Until somebody unrelated to me sent spam containing a URL pointing to one of my web sites. A recipient complained to Linode. Linode opened a ticket around 2am. At 6am, they simply shutdown my VPS becasue I didn't answer the ticket! I got the message a few hours later when I woke up. I f you want to take any website hosted on Linode down,…

For the record, we do allow more than 4 hours to respond to this form of abuse.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#79
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it isn't. In addition to using Pingdom, we are continuously monitoring availability from multiple different locations (these scripts also do DNS switching). Every time we detect an issue, we contact Linode and many times they confirm network issues (sometimes internal, sometimes upstream). Just two days back they confirmed one internal outage. See this screenshot: http://imgur.com/jYzuD Almost every time we conta…

I am pretty happy with Linode for the most part and haven't experienced many issues. However when we have had issues, diagnosed the issue and filed a ticket we get always get told it is a known issue and "Apologize for inconvenience". Why do I have to contact them to be told they are having an issue? Why can't they let me know asap so I can mitigate any problems they are having. The last issue we had was their backup…

You can check their status page at http://status.linode.com/ or drop by irc.oftc.net in the #linode channel. They also usually tweet as well.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

#80
post #59

Well, my experience with Linode started well: good price, great interface, etc. Until somebody unrelated to me sent spam containing a URL pointing to one of my web sites. A recipient complained to Linode. Linode opened a ticket around 2am. At 6am, they simply shutdown my VPS becasue I didn't answer the ticket! I got the message a few hours later when I woke up. I f you want to take any website hosted on Linode down,…

I'm guessing there was more to this story than just a spam complaint OR they gave you more than 4 hours
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