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Comment by noir_lord | Hacker News Reader

Apart from the breach and global password resets today.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-firm-linode-resets-user-p...

I have been a big fan of linode in the past, I still have a fair amount with them but honestly at this point I'm seriously considering AWS even at the increased cost (which compared to my time isn't that large really and reputational cost which is).

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This is the third time they've had a critical breach in the past 5 or so years, and that's excluding all the DDoS downtime they've had in that time span. I stopped using them after their second breach, and frankly am glad I did. I'm very happy with Digital Ocean.

I just wish DO hardware has a bit faster (or not so over-subscribed?). All of our tests show Linode beat DO hands down for at similar price points.

True. But DO seems to have more downtimes. I have had several scheduled forced reboots, some network downtime and just plain outages.

I've only had one in the past year I've been using them.

Wow. Disappointing that I found out about this here, 7 hours after it was posted, before hearing anything from Linode.

I was a Linode customer back when it first happened.

I found out on Slashdot/Reddit first and got the email from Linode about 3 days later. I have known ever since then that Linode is the type of provider you don't want to be involved with. A VPS provider has one responsibility above all else: be honest and transparent.

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