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In almost 20 years with Linode, I've had nearly zero problems. Akamai buys them, and within months we have an outage. Not encouraging... On the other hand, i

In almost 20 years with Linode, I've had nearly zero problems. Akamai buys them, and within months we have an outage. Not encouraging... On the other hand, it's only hitting my personal website, and the customer I have on Linode seems unaffected, so that's nice at least.

bragr 4y ago
To be fair, I know from personal experience Fremont has gone down hard for hours before.
tiffanyh 4y ago
Others have had different experiences. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14571234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14571234
tomxor 4y ago
I'm wondering how much of this is perception... The number of reported issues coming through has exploded since Akamai. Over the last week alone, almost every day a new networking issue for London is in my inbox. However - none of the recent ones have actually affected any one of my Linodes, even though it's possible since it falls under the service and datacenter - perhaps the change we are seeing is more transparency? I'm not saying no one is affected... as others in this thread clearly are, and I was affected by the datacenter wide outage in London earlier in the year - but it's possible that being more upfront in notifications of issues could change the perception of what before would have been considered a collection of isolated incidents.</speculation> [edit] I generally appreciate transparency, but when it comes to varying degrees of service disruption maybe there is a balance to be struck... right now it feels like the signal to noise ratio is low in terms of it's affect across all users even within an area. Right now I am pretty much ignoring the Linode issues filling my inbox, if a serious one came through I'd probably miss it.
rapind 4y ago
I’ve had a non trivial number of issues with them over the years. Enough that I moved all of my infrastructure to other (more expensive) providers. That being said, it was probably value for money spent while it lasted.
rossdavidh 4y ago
Well, it appears to be fixed now (for my websites at least), so I'm not as worried about Akamai as I was a couple hours ago. If it's another decade before I have an outage, I'm satisfied. On the other hand, if this happens again any time soon, it will be time to start evaluating options, I guess.
bananapub 4y ago
I've also been with them nearly twenty years (!?!), and they definitely have had problems throughout that entire time. perhaps the difference was that you'd get caker@ and co on IRC explaining what was up.
williamscales 4y ago
I moved off Linode 5 years ago due to outages and issues. I don't have any experience post-akamai to compare but it was definitely never a reliable service for me in the past.
- ilyt 4y ago
  Which site ? I've been in Fremont, then London with basically zero problems (few scheduled migrations for when they were changing hardware)
  - williamscales 4y ago
    I searched my emails and it appears it was the Fremont site. It was about 7 years ago I moved off Linode. Initially I went to EC2 but then I just replaced most of my VPS needs with other specific services. FWIW, EC2 was more reliable IME, but obviously the Linode UX was way better.

bragr 4y ago

To be fair, I know from personal experience Fremont has gone down hard for hours before.

tiffanyh 4y ago

Others have had different experiences. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14571234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14571234

tomxor 4y ago

I'm wondering how much of this is perception... The number of reported issues coming through has exploded since Akamai. Over the last week alone, almost every day a new networking issue for London is in my inbox. However - none of the recent ones have actually affected any one of my Linodes, even though it's possible since it falls under the service and datacenter - perhaps the change we are seeing is more transparency? I'm not saying no one is affected... as others in this thread clearly are, and I was affected by the datacenter wide outage in London earlier in the year - but it's possible that being more upfront in notifications of issues could change the perception of what before would have been considered a collection of isolated incidents.</speculation> [edit] I generally appreciate transparency, but when it comes to varying degrees of service disruption maybe there is a balance to be struck... right now it feels like the signal to noise ratio is low in terms of it's affect across all users even within an area. Right now I am pretty much ignoring the Linode issues filling my inbox, if a serious one came through I'd probably miss it.

rapind 4y ago

I’ve had a non trivial number of issues with them over the years. Enough that I moved all of my infrastructure to other (more expensive) providers. That being said, it was probably value for money spent while it lasted.

rossdavidh 4y ago

Well, it appears to be fixed now (for my websites at least), so I'm not as worried about Akamai as I was a couple hours ago. If it's another decade before I have an outage, I'm satisfied. On the other hand, if this happens again any time soon, it will be time to start evaluating options, I guess.

bananapub 4y ago

I've also been with them nearly twenty years (!?!), and they definitely have had problems throughout that entire time. perhaps the difference was that you'd get caker@ and co on IRC explaining what was up.

williamscales 4y ago

I moved off Linode 5 years ago due to outages and issues. I don't have any experience post-akamai to compare but it was definitely never a reliable service for me in the past.

ilyt 4y ago
Which site ? I've been in Fremont, then London with basically zero problems (few scheduled migrations for when they were changing hardware)
- williamscales 4y ago
  I searched my emails and it appears it was the Fremont site. It was about 7 years ago I moved off Linode. Initially I went to EC2 but then I just replaced most of my VPS needs with other specific services. FWIW, EC2 was more reliable IME, but obviously the Linode UX was way better.