[thezach]

I used to be on Linode... then one of their techs tripped on a power cord causing a significant outage in a data center... and no I'm not joking.

[jp_sc]

You are confusing them with Dreamhost: http://www.manton.org/2011/03/brent_on_baked.html

[ausjke]

with linode for 10+ years and never heard about this, can you back this up with some evidence?

[reefoctopus]

This wasn't something recent was it? Which datacenter?