[ghx]

I've used Linode for the last 4 years, and prior to this week, I've only had 2-3 instances of downtime, usually only for a few minutes. This week, it's happened 3 times, which really sucks.

I've been using DigitalOcean for about a year, and I experience downtime with them (NYC1) about once or twice every month. But they're $5.

This sort of thing happens to every VPS provider at some point, and switching to DigitalOcean isn't going to make a huge difference in that respect.

I do wish Linode were a bit better about updating their status page. I don't like relying other peoples angry tweets to determine if it's Linode, or just me.

[api]

I've had no appreciable downtime on Digital Ocean, and have a network scattered around: NYC2, AMS1, SFO1, and now Singapore (whatever they call it). My app is low-RAM, low-CPU, but possibly high bandwidth and their stuff is ideal for that.

[gtaylor]

I'm in NYC1 and NYC2 and it seems like there is maintenance at least once a month, if not more. Luckily, my application is very fault-tolerant, but it is surprising how often they are emailing me about maintenance outages (however brief they may be).

[api]

I get those messages too but I have monitoring running and don't actually see detectable downtime. So I guess they're brief or very selective outages.

[gtaylor]

I've got a bunch of monitoring set up on my instances there, and while it does usually result in actual downtime, it's not too long.

Even still, the downtime is frequent enough to where it'd be a bad fit for anything too serious. If our platform at work were to go down for 10 minute periods every month, our inboxes would be full of "What's going on?!?!" emails in short order.

[USNetizen]

It may happen to other providers, but it happens to Linode almost weekly - and they just turn around the blame (and charges) on the customer.

[akerl_]

Since Linode doesn't charge for any incoming transfer, can you clarify what you mean?