[taligent]

I really do not understand why people keep recommending Linode on here. Apart from their woeful and disgraceful security policies some of their data centres e.g. Fremont is very unreliable.

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[thaumaturgy]

I defended you the last time this came up; this time I think you're being wholly unfair. A single incident -- severe though it was -- does not make "woeful and disgraceful security policies". And the only data center that they have that has occasional issues, as far as I know, is Fremont, and it's worth pointing out that Fremont has had less downtime than AWS this year.

I use their Dallas and Newark data centers currently. I have had zero downtime this year, which puts Linode at the head of the pack in terms of reliability.

So if you don't understand why people keep recommending Linode, it's because:

1. The prices are fair;

2. The service is as reliable as anything else out there, and in some cases, far more reliable;

3. The performance is good;

4. The support is blow-you-out-of-the-water fantastic;

5. The software (their management console) is pretty good;

6. There are very very few complaints overall, other than their handling of the Bitcoin incident.

I agree that they should have handled that incident differently, and that they still haven't taken proper care of it. However, you're being otherwise dishonest in your portrayal of Linode.

[tedchs]

Linode also offers native IPv6 support, and they will route you a /64 on request.