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31 pointsjemhoff13y ago25 comments

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jaibot13y ago· 5 in thread

That explains the pingdom notification.

So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now.

Edit: New Jersey data center.

jd00713y ago

I'm a bit turned off by their (Digital Ocean) features page, in the SSD section, where they implied that SATA means traditional spindle-based HDDs. I kind of expect a cloud server host to know the proper terminology for these things. It's probably an editor's mistake but still...

Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium (e.g. SATA)"

ckeck13y ago

They likely just called it out like that here because so many other hosting providers use that as standard terminology.

idev24713y ago

Can't really judge a service by their marketing. A company might have kick-ass benchmarks but a shitty site. Look at Linode. Their site design looks like it's still 2005.

ciclista13y ago

FYI I created a test account last Friday and got some of the worst service I've had in 10 years of hosting stuff online.

jaibot13y ago

I've had no problems with my tiny node in the few days I've had it - what problems did you run into, so I can be on the lookout?

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thekos13y ago· 2 in thread

From the #linode IRC channel, caker (CEO) states it was a segfault in bind.

13:53:14 caker@ : They operate completely independently, other than loading from the same zones. This looks to be a segfault in bind itself

JosephRedfern13y ago

Isn't having two independent name-servers supposed to prevent this kind of thing?

thekos13y ago

Appears that it cascaded across all of their nameservers. Seems like it could be an attack (remote or local DoS condition bug, since all users can create their own zones), or maybe just a random bug - hopefully they'll update us.

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singlow13y ago· 2 in thread

My external http monitoring had no issues accessing my websites on linode. I do not user their DNS though.

[Edit: My nodes are in the Dallas Datacenter]

kyrra13y ago

I use Linode DNS and I saw no issues from Pingdom either (also in dallas).

zero013y ago

fwiw I use the dallas datacenter, linode dns, and pingdom said I was down for 11 minutes.

gingerlime13y ago

We have linodes in London, Newark, Atlanta, Dallas and Tokyo. All monitored by pingdom and none reported downtime... Our DNS is however hosted using Route53 and not Linode.

UnoriginalGuy13y ago

The most interesting thing in this thread is frankly how many people seem to be using Pingdom.

codehero13y ago

My existing SSH connections are still up, must be a DNS issue.

yankcrime13y ago

Didn't experience any loss of connectivity from my VPS hosted in their London DC.

robertfw13y ago

Back up now. Linode has definitely been doing all they can to scare me off!

homosaur13y ago

Must have been very short, I can access my sites, login to admin, and see all of Linode's pages as of 3:49 CDT

dreeves13y ago

Pingdom detected no downtime for beeminder.com, hosted in Linode's New Jersey datacenter (I think).

komrade13y ago

Confirmed. I wasn't able to access my sites for like 5 minutes.

jonmarkgo13y ago

Haven't experienced any downtime for my servers...

remi13y ago

DNS issues seem to be resolved now.

andyhmltn13y ago

No downtime from London

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25 comments

23 comments · 14 top-level

jaibot13y ago· 5 in thread

That explains the pingdom notification.

So, Digital Ocean is looking pretty good right now.

Edit: New Jersey data center.

jd00713y ago

Quote from Digital Ocean Features page: "With our SSD hard drives, you can expect much faster disk i/o performance when compared to a traditional storage medium (e.g. SATA)"

ckeck13y ago

They likely just called it out like that here because so many other hosting providers use that as standard terminology.

idev24713y ago

Can't really judge a service by their marketing. A company might have kick-ass benchmarks but a shitty site. Look at Linode. Their site design looks like it's still 2005.

ciclista13y ago

FYI I created a test account last Friday and got some of the worst service I've had in 10 years of hosting stuff online.

jaibot13y ago

I've had no problems with my tiny node in the few days I've had it - what problems did you run into, so I can be on the lookout?

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thekos13y ago· 2 in thread

From the #linode IRC channel, caker (CEO) states it was a segfault in bind.

13:53:14 caker@ : They operate completely independently, other than loading from the same zones. This looks to be a segfault in bind itself

JosephRedfern13y ago

Isn't having two independent name-servers supposed to prevent this kind of thing?

thekos13y ago

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singlow13y ago· 2 in thread

My external http monitoring had no issues accessing my websites on linode. I do not user their DNS though.

[Edit: My nodes are in the Dallas Datacenter]

kyrra13y ago

I use Linode DNS and I saw no issues from Pingdom either (also in dallas).

zero013y ago

fwiw I use the dallas datacenter, linode dns, and pingdom said I was down for 11 minutes.

gingerlime13y ago

We have linodes in London, Newark, Atlanta, Dallas and Tokyo. All monitored by pingdom and none reported downtime... Our DNS is however hosted using Route53 and not Linode.

UnoriginalGuy13y ago

The most interesting thing in this thread is frankly how many people seem to be using Pingdom.

codehero13y ago

My existing SSH connections are still up, must be a DNS issue.

yankcrime13y ago

Didn't experience any loss of connectivity from my VPS hosted in their London DC.

robertfw13y ago

Back up now. Linode has definitely been doing all they can to scare me off!

homosaur13y ago

Must have been very short, I can access my sites, login to admin, and see all of Linode's pages as of 3:49 CDT

dreeves13y ago

Pingdom detected no downtime for beeminder.com, hosted in Linode's New Jersey datacenter (I think).

komrade13y ago

Confirmed. I wasn't able to access my sites for like 5 minutes.

jonmarkgo13y ago

Haven't experienced any downtime for my servers...

remi13y ago

DNS issues seem to be resolved now.

andyhmltn13y ago

No downtime from London

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