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I used Linode in the past for a number of clients, and had no issues. Then, all of a sudden, in the past 6 months or so my clients have been repeatedly hit with

I used Linode in the past for a number of clients, and had no issues. Then, all of a sudden, in the past 6 months or so my clients have been repeatedly hit with attack after attack after attack. Linode "support" blamed us, as if it were our fault and charged us hundreds of dollars in bandwidth overages. Needless to say, all of my clients now reside on other platforms and are entirely attack-free now and have been since moving off of Linode. Their service has gone so far downhill.

jaskerr 13y ago
Care to clarify to which platforms you have moved your clients? I've considered Linode, but haven't "pulled the trigger" just yet, and all this turmoil has me reconsidering. Thanks in advance.
- USNetizen 13y ago
  I've moved to Windows Azure (for my Microsoft-using clients) and Amazon for the rest. Linode support has been absolutely crude and even berating in their responses to me. They have lost all sense of professionalism. It is sad to see a once promising hosting company go so far downhill so fast, but such is the nature of trying to be the lowest-cost option.
  - nacs 13y ago
    I'm an ex-Linode customer also and hosted with them for years before switching (around the time that they were hacked via the Coldfusion exploit) and I agree, it's sad how far they've dropped from being one of the best in quality/support to what they are now. I can't tell if it's because they're trying to scale up too fast or if theres some other issue however. Also, Linode is not really the "lowest-cost" option as Digital ocean and similar providers offer better deals for the low price VPS market.
jethro_tell 13y ago
When you say linode 'blamed you' do you mean that your customers were directly attacked (their ips) or that the platform was attacked? Does linode have an anti ddos product that the sell?
grey-area 13y ago
I haven't noticed any downtime on the London datacenter, is this just affecting Dallas or is it more widespread?
- teh_klev 13y ago
  Re-read the status page, three times it mentions "Dallas" :)
  - grey-area 13y ago
    I'll take that as a no then. Lots of people in this thread are talking as if this is something all Linode datacentres experience regularly, which it isn't in my experience.

jaskerr 13y ago

Care to clarify to which platforms you have moved your clients? I've considered Linode, but haven't "pulled the trigger" just yet, and all this turmoil has me reconsidering. Thanks in advance.

USNetizen 13y ago
I've moved to Windows Azure (for my Microsoft-using clients) and Amazon for the rest. Linode support has been absolutely crude and even berating in their responses to me. They have lost all sense of professionalism. It is sad to see a once promising hosting company go so far downhill so fast, but such is the nature of trying to be the lowest-cost option.
- nacs 13y ago
  I'm an ex-Linode customer also and hosted with them for years before switching (around the time that they were hacked via the Coldfusion exploit) and I agree, it's sad how far they've dropped from being one of the best in quality/support to what they are now. I can't tell if it's because they're trying to scale up too fast or if theres some other issue however. Also, Linode is not really the "lowest-cost" option as Digital ocean and similar providers offer better deals for the low price VPS market.

jethro_tell 13y ago

When you say linode 'blamed you' do you mean that your customers were directly attacked (their ips) or that the platform was attacked? Does linode have an anti ddos product that the sell?

grey-area 13y ago

I haven't noticed any downtime on the London datacenter, is this just affecting Dallas or is it more widespread?

teh_klev 13y ago
Re-read the status page, three times it mentions "Dallas" :)
- grey-area 13y ago
  I'll take that as a no then. Lots of people in this thread are talking as if this is something all Linode datacentres experience regularly, which it isn't in my experience.