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Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by mgkimsal »

ghurtado wrote: post #3
msbarnett wrote: post #2

I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.

[EDIT] I misunderstood the security issues parent was referring to

they've had issues with security around their own systems (payment info leaked, IIRC). And if their systems are compromised, because they have the ability to touch my systems (root password reset, for example), there's a potential breach there.

and they had their own massive DDOS attack which went on for days last winter (dec 2015?)

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by paraxisi »

ghurtado wrote: post #3
msbarnett wrote: post #2

I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.

[EDIT] I misunderstood the security issues parent was referring to

https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/05/security-notification-and...

Among others, OP (likely) isn't referring to your own box specific security.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by vermontdevil »

ghurtado wrote: post #3
msbarnett wrote: post #2

I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.

[EDIT] I misunderstood the security issues parent was referring to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by JonathonW »

vermontdevil wrote: post #6
ghurtado wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[EDIT] I misunderstood the security issues parent was referring to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170

More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11136948

And the parent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11136399

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

[Disclaimer: Linode dev here]

I see a few people^W^Weveryone here talking about security. If you didn't read the whole blog post, you might not have noticed the new Linode manager that we're working on being mentioned. Check it out, it's open source: https://github.com/Linode/manager

If you haven't been present in other discussions about Linode security, one of the major factors (in my opinion) is the current manager. It's a large and old ColdFusion codebase, and it's hard to maintain. The new manager is backed by the new Python API and the whole system is significantly easier to reason about with respect to security. I think that the new manager should help ease some concerns, and it's going to be pretty great in other respects too. Hit me up with any questions you have, I'll do my best.

In other news, I run a bunch of Linodes myself and I'm stoked to see these upgrades, even though I get my Linodes for free ;)

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by mkorsak »

mgkimsal wrote: post #4
ghurtado wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[EDIT] I misunderstood the security issues parent was referring to

they've had issues with security around their own systems (payment info leaked, IIRC). And if their systems are compromised, because they have the ability to touch my systems (root password reset, for example), there's a potential breach there. and they had their own massive DDOS attack which went on for days last winter (dec 2015?)

You're right, and the downtime was inexcusable. We've learned from what happened and are continuously working to upgrade and better protect our network, and periodically report on our progress on our blog: https://blog.linode.com/2016/05/02/network-status-updates-ap...

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by fweespeech »

msbarnett wrote: post #2

I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.

> I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.

To be fair, unless you are running critical infrastructure and/or processing things involving money...Linode's quality of security is adequate. (i.e. For hobbyists and small businesses that don't touch take payments but rely on ad revenue )

Security is pretty terrible everywhere in the hosting business unless you colocate your own stuff in a locked cage or pay the tier-1 vendors who cost 100% more than Linode.

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