Hi,

I'm thinking about ordering 2 linodes in the same datacentre.
Can they be specified so they are guaranteed to be on different host machines?

One would be live & one serve as a (reasonably!) hot backup.
Therefore it wouldn't be a good idea for them to be on the same hardware.

I note from the FAQ that only the same plan types are on each host, so i suppose
a 512 & 768 would guarantee they are on different hosts, but can, say, two 512's be
specified to be on different hosts at the time of order?

Thanks in advance
Paul

Our Linode allocation system gives priority to machines where you do NOT have any other Linodes, however if they do indeed land on the same host just open a ticket and we'll get you taken care of.

-Chris

Crikey, that was quick!
Thanks very much, that's great news.

Paul

I had a similar question as I'm planning a fairly large (30-40 servers) deployment which consists of multiple redundant pairs of servers. I need to ensure that each server in the pair is not on the same physical host.

Can I view in the control panel which physical host my linodes are running on ?

Yes, it's in the column on the right side of each Linode's dashboard page.

If you're buying 30-40 Linodes, I imagine some will end up on the same hosts, but it should be easy to find 15-20 pairs that aren't.

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Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng on IRC)

Great, thanks Matt !

You may also want to consider splitting these between two datacenters. All the redundancy in the world won't help you with a datacenter-wide issue, as does occasionally happen in life.