This is why Linode is better than many other services I've used. Every data center has outages, but at least Linode makes a point to update the server status pr

This is why Linode is better than many other services I've used. Every data center has outages, but at least Linode makes a point to update the server status promptly and (it seems) implement the fixes as quickly as possible. rbranson is right: the responsibility for redundancy lies with you.