Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
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Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
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Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#2I take it Google used Linode as a neutral/anonymous place to access stuff from?
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#3I take it Google used Linode as a neutral/anonymous place to access stuff from?
That's how I read it.
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#4Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#5Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.
Agreed. They helped me compile a custom kernel the other day on IRC, they have simply awesome support.
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#6One article I saw implicated a Rackspace server in the attacker's side of event. I presume that meant Slicehost.
If I was breaking into computers "off the clock", I'd probably look to just-a-CC# no-questions-asked hosting providers (probably overseas) as my staging ground. This is something new. Commodity virtualized VPS systems like Slicehost are an awfully convenient way to launder attacks.
It's only been in the last couple years that VM slices have been so quick and easy to buy.
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#7Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.
I've been running http://wasitup.com on Linode the last months and I've been pleased with their stablity except for a 9 minute network outage earlier today (to their credit they were able to resolve it quickly while communicating the status to us end users). For my opinion on the performance characteristics you'd have to read my article on the matter: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#8Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.
Yeah, I've had a $20 Linode virt for a couple of years and it's been pretty reliable.
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#9Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.
Bad day for the praise. Their Newark-based servers dropped off the net for about 10 minutes today, though in general I've been really happy with them.
Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks
#10Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.
Bad day for the praise. Their Newark-based servers dropped off the net for about 10 minutes today, though in general I've been really happy with them.
The outage was upstream. The downtime was due to the Internet correcting itself by routing around the problem -- if you have access to BGP data, you can see the rash of rerouting that fixed the problem.
(Hint: Check jlintz's comment above.)