Disclaimer: Linode employee, not in networking My understanding is that Atlanta in particular has some poor upstreams and is making our job pretty difficult th

Disclaimer: Linode employee, not in networking My understanding is that Atlanta in particular has some poor upstreams and is making our job pretty difficult there. Notice that it's almost always Atlanta that's getting hit. I would suggest just using other datacenters or making sure your high availability model includes several DCs (which I would suggest at any hosting provider, really).