I'm in Fremont right now and kinda sick of the backups not working. I'm thinking about moving to another, but what would the community recommend?

Also, what do I have to do to move since my IP will change? Obviously DNS and /etc/hosts, but what other items that I may miss as a newbie to linux administration?

The one affected storage pool in Fremont is back in business since this morning.

-Chris

Of course, right after I get a failed snapshot this morning and decide I might move you guys get it working!

Went and did another snapshot and it's working fine. Thanks to all who worked hard to get it working.

I still want to see what people say about the datacenters :)

If you move you'll just have to change your DNS records.


Also you forgot Atlanta.

we're going to try running latency test to Hawaii from each data center ... It'll be interesting.

Is there a list of IP Provider per data Center?

Fremont = He.net
Dallas = The Planet
Atlanta =
Newark =
London =

My London IP lists the block owner as "Linode, LLC" with the U.S. address. In fact, the entire IP segment "109.74.192.0 - 109.74.199.255" is assigned to Linode. As the segments next door are in entirely different countries, the closest I could find from the "Origin" field listed by the block, was TelecityGroup, which has 8 datacenters (!) spread across three main areas in London.
http://www.telecitygroup.com/colocation ... don-uk.htm

TelecityGroup also has datacenters all across Europe; in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Dublin (Ireland), Frankfurt (Germany), Manchester (also UK), Milan (Italy), Paris (France) and Stockholm (Sweden). They also appear to provide services to ThePlanet as well.
http://www.telecitygroup.com/who-we-work-with.htm
http://www.telecitygroup.com/the-planet-case-study.htm

As for Newark, a lookup for newark1.linode.com leads to something called Net Access Corporation in New Jersey.
http://www.nac.net/
http://www.nac.net/enterprise/colo.asp?page=facilities

And for Atlanta, a lookup for atlanta1.linode.com leads to Global Net Access, LLC in Atlanta, or GNAX.
http://www.gnax.net/
http://www.gnax.net/data_centers/atlantanap.html

It stinks that you were having issues. Really, the only way people can make informed decisions is if Linode publishes some sort of facilities descriptions. The Planet (now Soft Layer thanks to the merger) has 6 datacenters in Dallas. How would you know which one you're in?

This information only matters if you're worried about power outages, natural disasters, peering/latency, etc.

What I find funny is people who think Dallas is awesome. It was only a few years ago when The Planet was competing with RackShack (who changed names to ev1 and then I think merged with Soft Layer as well) by offering $100/mo dedicated servers:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=851097

Anyone remember the Rack Shack forums? And then they started WHT? The guy who owned it was "Head Surfer" or something like that? They posted pictures of their super cheap servers which were really cheap whitebox towers thrown on to shelves somewhere in Florida with some RaQ4s thrown in?

https://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Network

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