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Linode Fremont Down

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Can't ping any of our servers. http://status.linode.com/

So, what other Linode datacenters are more stable? 4 of the last 5 issues on status.linode.com are from Fremont.

Word on the street. We are migrating to Dallas after this is resolved.

Never had problem with the London datacenter. I was on Newark before hand and I don't remember having many problems (maybe 1 or 2 times in a couple of years).

Avoid Fremont at all costs (unless you really need a server in that location), its been like this for years.

Dallas is much better than Fremont. I moved all servers after their first outage months ago.

Tired of this crap.

This is the fourth downtime event this week, and it won't be the last.

Linode appears to have an abusive relationship with the people at Hurricane Electric. No matter how poorly HE treats Linode, Linode always takes it and begs for more.

Our failure management scripts have gone into action 4 times this week because of Fremont, but our relatively high DNS TTL of 15 minutes has still left a few unhappy west coast customers. We will be reducing our TTL and seeking a new west coast provider. Most likely back to ec2.

Do you basically run mirrored Linodes in different data centers, and rysnc everything from the primary to secondary? Then when primary goes down, update the DNS to secondary?

Sort of. Our site instances are shared-nothing peers, so there's no primary/secondary. Users resolve the closest host to them ( anycast geoIP )by default, but if one of the hosts goes unavailable, the DNS entry for that host is removed by our scripts.

Cool, who's your DNS provider who does the anycast geoIP?

Zerigo, cool little startup in Colorado that got acquired earlier this year:

http://www.zerigo.com/managed-dns

Their API offers full control over everything, which is good because the way you set up geodns records is ridiculous - scripting it out is the best way to handle it.

Linode stays with HE because HE offers incredibly cheap rates for bulk purchases. I didn't host with Linode for this very reason, if bottom line matters more than reliability then my money will go elsewhere ( I didn't make this up, many many hosts have moved from HE to other datacenters due to reliability ).

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