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Am I the only one who has constant issues with VMs in Linode? I feel like that platform is the worst out of all the ones I've tried so far. Unfortunately, our c

Am I the only one who has constant issues with VMs in Linode? I feel like that platform is the worst out of all the ones I've tried so far. Unfortunately, our company is stuck with it for now. :(

fictioncircle 9y ago
I use the San Jose facility for my Linodes. I haven't had a problem since the rolling power outages years ago where Hurricane Electric's backup power failed to kick in.
artursapek 9y ago
Issues like what? I used to have my machines freak out and crash once in a while before moving it all to KVM. Haven't had trouble since.
- lovehashbrowns 9y ago
  It's mostly "Hardware issue" errors. We'll get an email from them with the name of the VM saying that an error was detected, and that the issue will be resolved soon. It is generally fixed pretty quickly. It has the side effect of forcing me to learn how to recover from these events, but it's not so fun when my master database's server goes out (that's happened twice in the two years I've been at my current employer). We also have everything moved over to KVM already. We occasionally experience problems with %steal due to other VMs in the same host. It was a lot worse when we had a critical service hosted in Linode, but that was gutted and moved to actual hardware. Only a small, low-traffic bit still remains in Linode.
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IFeelOK 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work there. What kind of issues are you running into? There's a lot of issues that can happen on a server, but a lot of them are due to not enough resources or a misconfiguration. Now, if your server is seeing constant issues on the host your server is on...
- lovehashbrowns 9y ago
  The emails we get are generally ones saying it was an issue affecting the physical hardware that the VM is hosted on, yeah. :( I tend to just ignore them now though, lol. There are only a few VMs there that are absolutely critical. Everything else is configured for HA.
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  - IFeelOK 9y ago
    That's no good, I'd like to take a look and see what's happened - having multiple hardware issues isn't necessarily normal. If you have time, please shoot a ticket our way. Mention that you spoke to Soh on Ycombinator and that I requested this ticket to be opened so we can seek out any solutions.

Am I the only one who has constant issues with VMs in Linode? I feel like that platform is the worst out of all the ones I've tried so far. Unfortunately, our company is stuck with it for now. :(

fictioncircle 9y ago

I use the San Jose facility for my Linodes. I haven't had a problem since the rolling power outages years ago where Hurricane Electric's backup power failed to kick in.

artursapek 9y ago

Issues like what? I used to have my machines freak out and crash once in a while before moving it all to KVM. Haven't had trouble since.

lovehashbrowns 9y ago
It's mostly "Hardware issue" errors. We'll get an email from them with the name of the VM saying that an error was detected, and that the issue will be resolved soon. It is generally fixed pretty quickly. It has the side effect of forcing me to learn how to recover from these events, but it's not so fun when my master database's server goes out (that's happened twice in the two years I've been at my current employer). We also have everything moved over to KVM already. We occasionally experience problems with %steal due to other VMs in the same host. It was a lot worse when we had a critical service hosted in Linode, but that was gutted and moved to actual hardware. Only a small, low-traffic bit still remains in Linode.

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IFeelOK 9y ago

Disclaimer: I work there. What kind of issues are you running into? There's a lot of issues that can happen on a server, but a lot of them are due to not enough resources or a misconfiguration. Now, if your server is seeing constant issues on the host your server is on...

lovehashbrowns 9y ago
The emails we get are generally ones saying it was an issue affecting the physical hardware that the VM is hosted on, yeah. :( I tend to just ignore them now though, lol. There are only a few VMs there that are absolutely critical. Everything else is configured for HA.
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- IFeelOK 9y ago
  That's no good, I'd like to take a look and see what's happened - having multiple hardware issues isn't necessarily normal. If you have time, please shoot a ticket our way. Mention that you spoke to Soh on Ycombinator and that I requested this ticket to be opened so we can seek out any solutions.