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This is kinda what a status page is for, not the HN front page - linked being down is nothing new - it’s why we moved our stack away to AWS, what, seven years a
by madaxe_again 8y ago
This is kinda what a status page is for, not the HN front page - linked being down is nothing new - it’s why we moved our stack away to AWS, what, seven years ago? Well, that and the horribly overloaded switches and poor implementation of the Xen packet scheduler that caused unacceptable latency spikes to memcached.
It’s great for hosting toy sites that sit on a single box and don’t have an uptime SLA - and people saying “well it’s cheap” - moving to AWS saved money, as we had to run big linodes for the workload purely for the additional internode bandwidth.
- LeoPanthera 8y agoLinode switched to KVM from Xen ages ago.
- corobo 8y agoWell yeah but then where do you tell your story about moving to AWS? If it gets upvoted enough to hit the front page enough people must be interested in it - there's a hard low-end cap if I recall, must have at least x votes before it's even considered for front page For popular services such as Linode it also makes sense as if you're ever thinking "Man I see this all the time on HN" it's probably a good call to avoid that provider
- qsdevacc 8y agoYou do realise that this post is a link to the Linode status page. I'm not sure what you're saying in that first sentence. All I ever hear about Linode is their great speeds but also their downtime issues. I'm still on DigitalOcean and Vultr. AWS is too expensive for what I use it for right now.