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I'm guessing you haven't been affected by any of the Fremont(Hurricane Electric DC) outages? I have a lot of Linode boxes and love their service but I'm still splitting load with different providers as well.

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Yep, the Fremont DC has been down at least 3 times in the past year. I still love Linode, but i'll probably move my (personal) VPS to another of their facilities.

I am in fact planning to move to Dallas later this week. 60ms of latency just isn't worth it.

Do you know how long the total downtime was?

Linode is pretty good about accurate updates for Requests For Outages(RFO): http://status.linode.com/

I don't keep track of the totals but I think it you search their forums, I seem to recall someone who had monitored them with Pingdom or Wormly(or equivalent) for a fair period of time.

Thanks. I went through and counted up the downtime and came up with 16.5 hours down for Fremont in the past year (from today).

I remember the outages at the Freemont location. Every outage this year has been related to power issues. The company running the Fremont datacenter is Hurricane Electric. I hope Hurricane Electric gets things sorted soon at the Fremont datacenter. Every time I think about the company name "Hurricane Electric", I think "now there's a company name that inspires confidence." The name "Disaster Service" must have already been taken.

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