Linode has been having DoS issues over the past few months. It feels like they've really been slipping over the past six. Has anyone left Linode because of the DoS issues? Are there other good alternatives that folks love out there?
I switched from Linode to Uptano[0] almost a year ago now. I heard about them here.
They don't have many of the features Linode, DigitalOcean, etc. have. But they've been super responsive to the (two?) questions I had. Their one ~$85/mo server replaced five Linodes I had. Better performance for less money. Though, as I understand it, Linode has upgraded their offerings since then.
Somewhat mystified what strategies a victim can use in an attack other than paying bribes or protection money. Obviously the attackers scale faster than defenders so there's no technological solution.
Do a bad job, so you don't make money, so you won't be targeted by people shaking down providers for money?
I suppose one strategy would be to cover up problems and not talk about them, so obviously a provider not reporting problems couldn't be having problems?
I've got Linodes in every data center except Atlanta. Dallas has been quite unreliable in the last six months, but the other data centers have been OK. (Fremont had some bad DoS and power issues a while back but it seems to have been OK recently.)
I wonder if Dallas is being affected disproportionately because Linode's own website and management console are hosted there, and that's what the DoSers are targeting.
I haven't but have been looking. Digital ocean is competitive on everything but storage space for me, i'd end up paying the same for 10GB less or pay for more ram/cpu than i need to get the same storage. (though this is largely because of the bulk discount from paying for things a year in advance).
I chose Digital Ocean recently because my needs are rather modest right now and they are cheaper at the low end. I imagine that Linode will get this worked out. It's probably only a matter of time until DO gets this too, so I wouldn't have picked based on this.
yeah I was a linode user for few years and am using digitalocean and I've never looked back. I think the droplet API is by far the most powerful feature, it's so simple to use and understand compared to Amazon. For example, if I need a new development box to test something out I can spin up a new droplet and shut it down when I no longer need it and save the money. It's pretty insane how much of a cost save DO offers.
That's one use case I can definitely see being for DO but doesn't make as much sense for me. I've just got the linode for handling random services (VPN, IMAP, WWW, and a few others) and need it up constantly. For dev work I've always got a local machine that has enough ram and storage to do that instantly right next to me and not have to deal payment for it.
This was my use case also until recently. Unfortunately, the dev box is behind a dynamic ip. I use a following service (dnsdynamic.org), but it's not 100% reliable, so when it became time to make things available to other players I went DO for a $5 box.
The uWSGI ppa is not really maintained at all. The recommended way to install it is via pip. It's just one binary and you're making the upstart conf yourself anyways.
