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>I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary server better than any other VPS

>I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary server better than any other VPS host in the world. I use DO for this and have used many others in the past and I have never had any problems with DO...

gtaylor 12y ago
Anecdotally, I get notifications of maintenance outages every month with DO in NYC1 and NYC2. These are exceedingly, exceedingly rare with Linode's Atlanta DC. Also, stolen CPU on my DO boxes is super high, whereas this is very rare on Linode. You have less neighbors.
- nine_k 12y ago
  Most of the notifications are about "short periods of higher latency and packet loss", which I can totally tolerate. The last "5-10 minutes disconnect" happened in November 2013.
  - gtaylor 12y ago
    If it were just higher latency, I'd agree. But packet loss is a bit different.
    - IgorPartola 12y ago
      Packet loss is high latency when you are dealing with TCP. So unless you are streaming something over UDP or rely on ICMP for something like monitoring, you are fine.
- coolestuk 12y ago
  My experience is the reverse. My $5 DO server running almost identical software responds much faster than my Linode server. The Linode server is far, far closer to me geographically. I have put this down to the DO SSDs. It will be interesting to see if this is true. I've been considering migrating from Lindoe to DO because they were faster and cheaper. I've had 2 DO VPS for about 6 months, and never had a problem with them.
  - gtaylor 12y ago
    > My $5 DO server running almost identical software responds much faster than my Linode server. Faster how? This doesn't tell us anything. > I have put this down to the DO SSDs Linode now uses SSDs, too. And server-grade ones at that.
- threeseed 12y ago
  In the last two months there was 3 maintenance outages and 1 unscheduled at Atlanta. 0 at NYC1. http://status.linode.com http://status.linode.com http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com
  - casperb 12y ago
    I don't know about Linode, but I do know that DO does not report most of there outages on there status page. With 3 out of 4 outages or 'troubles' at Digital Ocean, there is no report on there status page. Even when tens of people complaining about it on twitter and they replied on the tweets that they have an outage, there is nothing on the status page. So I would not recommend comparing there status pages.
teekert 12y ago
Last month DO rebooted my droplet (I received an email notice of this), it came back with all my config files filled with just @@@@'s... They were not helpful at all, after 5 emails they offered to help migrate leftover data to a new droplet but there was nothing that wasn't in my backups, my site was down for a day.

gtaylor 12y ago

Anecdotally, I get notifications of maintenance outages every month with DO in NYC1 and NYC2. These are exceedingly, exceedingly rare with Linode's Atlanta DC. Also, stolen CPU on my DO boxes is super high, whereas this is very rare on Linode. You have less neighbors.

nine_k 12y ago
Most of the notifications are about "short periods of higher latency and packet loss", which I can totally tolerate. The last "5-10 minutes disconnect" happened in November 2013.
- gtaylor 12y ago
  If it were just higher latency, I'd agree. But packet loss is a bit different.
  - IgorPartola 12y ago
    Packet loss is high latency when you are dealing with TCP. So unless you are streaming something over UDP or rely on ICMP for something like monitoring, you are fine.
coolestuk 12y ago
My experience is the reverse. My $5 DO server running almost identical software responds much faster than my Linode server. The Linode server is far, far closer to me geographically. I have put this down to the DO SSDs. It will be interesting to see if this is true. I've been considering migrating from Lindoe to DO because they were faster and cheaper. I've had 2 DO VPS for about 6 months, and never had a problem with them.
- gtaylor 12y ago
  > My $5 DO server running almost identical software responds much faster than my Linode server. Faster how? This doesn't tell us anything. > I have put this down to the DO SSDs Linode now uses SSDs, too. And server-grade ones at that.
threeseed 12y ago
In the last two months there was 3 maintenance outages and 1 unscheduled at Atlanta. 0 at NYC1. http://status.linode.com http://status.linode.com http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com
- casperb 12y ago
  I don't know about Linode, but I do know that DO does not report most of there outages on there status page. With 3 out of 4 outages or 'troubles' at Digital Ocean, there is no report on there status page. Even when tens of people complaining about it on twitter and they replied on the tweets that they have an outage, there is nothing on the status page. So I would not recommend comparing there status pages.

teekert 12y ago

Last month DO rebooted my droplet (I received an email notice of this), it came back with all my config files filled with just @@@@'s... They were not helpful at all, after 5 emails they offered to help migrate leftover data to a new droplet but there was nothing that wasn't in my backups, my site was down for a day.