Assigning fault isn't productive. But as Linode customers, what are we to do? My trust in Linode's reliability is completely shot at this point. I filed a support ticket trying to get more information about the outage, and the response I got was absolutely worthless. No part of this has made me feel better about Linode at all.
AWS is so massive that they can just sustain most DDOSes, and they write real postmortems after attacks. They're not as fast as Linode, but what good is speed if my site is completely vulnerable to every botnet that decides to look Linode's way?
"It will not, however, employ security algorithms needed to deflect application layer attacks (e.g., HTTP flood) nor will it help against larger network layer threats."
AWS is so massive that they can just sustain most DDOSes, and they write real postmortems after attacks. They're not as fast as Linode, but what good is speed if my site is completely vulnerable to every botnet that decides to look Linode's way?