While I haven't experienced this problem (I think it may be on your end), it's worth noting that status.linode.com is not hosted on a Linode-controlled system. It's hosted by TypePad in Oakland, CA. This is an intentional decision, so that status.linode.com is available even if Linode suffers catastrophic failure. As such, if you can't access both linode.com and status.linode.com, it's almost definitely an issue on your end.

My three things;

1. More storage!

2. Faster boot and shutdown. I've seen it take up to a minute to shutdown my server.

3. Another datacenter somewhere in asia.

Well, not if the "catastrophic failure" takes out all 5 nameservers...

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Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng on IRC)

Sure, but even if all the DNS servers went down for a while, it would take a while for the rest of the net to notice (for the same reason changes take a while to propagate). And, of course, there's the twitter feed, although it seems less for status updates and more for customer interaction these days.

http://linode.typepad.com/

Oh, nice.

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For me its simple..

I have been very happy with Linode for the time I have been using it.. My only suggestion is to keep pace with the pricing in the industry.. So either offer more resource for the same money or make the services cheaper..

There are a lot of VPS offerings out there now, some at half the price of the similar Linode offerings..

I know its hard to truly compare providers and I know Linode are good but at a point it becomes hard to ignore the other providers offerings..

Believe me, they have.
http://blog.linode.com/category/upgrades/

Just two years ago, you got half of what you get today for the same price, ie. what used to be a Linode 512 (the smallest service plan) was previously a Linode 360, and a few years before that, it was called "Linode 64". Prices haven't changed over the years, so we've gotten even more for our money at each upgrade.

Whenever there's a big plan upgrade (which seems to happen at least once every year), you only have to reconfigure your Linode (if there will be more disk space available) and reboot it.

Linode has been around for a little over 8 years now, and I've been a customer for almost 7 of them (I now have gone up to 3 Linodes total; 2 in Dallas and 1 in London). Based on the customer service and uptime I get for so "little" per month, I don't plan on leaving.

That said, I wouldn't mind a little extra disk space (managed cloud-type storage, like Amazon S3 and Rackspace CloudFiles) for hosting larger files.

While the upgrades are certainly welcome, a typical Linode disk upgrade isn't really going to fix the problem that many of us have; we don't need another 25%, or 33%, or even 100% more disk, because anything beyond that amount will still be prohibitively expensive. We need the ability to get a substantially larger amount at an affordable price if required, potentially and significantly lower performance (a secondary store for bulk storage doesn't need to be as fast as the disk the database runs on, for example).

I understand and agree with keeping revenues the same and appreciate the added RAM...

Right now I really want to be able to keep my ip when moving datacenters so we can easily find a reliable data center as well as test latency without mass changes.

That's not possible beacause hierarchical addressing (http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Course/Subnet/3.htm)

1. As others have said, a cheap, mountable (standard filesystem) storage solution.

2. Expand the Linode API, specifically to include the ability to checked used network transfer.

3. Allow delegation of access to other Linode Manager accounts with a granular permissions system. Meaning, user 'alice' can grant user 'bob' full rights to all her Linodes and user 'charlie' only reboot rights to a particular Linode.

Then, a random nice to have for a particular account but not a big deal:

4. Allow other payment methods, like PayPal or pre-authorized direct withdrawal from a checking account.

And my personal pipe dream:

5. Build a datacentre in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada and hire me to help run it.

1. freebsd
2. freebsd
3. don't sell out





Did I mention freebsd?

Only because you asked caker. I am more than satisfied with Linode how it is now. However, if I had to make three points here they come.

1) I wish disk space was a bit cheaper. If you want to run anything on linode that requires a ton of disk space, the price (even for higher plans) becomes unreasonable and rules out Linode as a practical choice. A reasonable suggestion of prices for add-on disk space would be as follows:

20GB - $5/month
50GB - $10/month
$100GB - $15/month (maybe the absolute max add on space?)

2) 1 Free manual backup for every Linode. For those who have the paid backup service, simply allow 2 manual backups (instead of the current one)

3) I like to use the linode dns as my slave server. For slaves, allow us to view the records linode dns currently holds for such domain. Would help me ensure I have it setup right.

Well,

I would echo the others about data storage options. Getting resonable sized storage over the web is much slower than it would be to even use a network storage device from the local network.

A official andriod app. I see the comments here about the unofficial one and won't use it. I also have to wonder if the unofficial one since it is using linode graphics is violating copyrights owned by linode on those images.

I would like to see the notices that we get about resources to contain more information. I keep getting notices about disk i/o rate. I don't mind the default threshold, but it would be really cool if these notifications included things like whats using the io (ie iotop), cpu and other things. It may help capture a out of control process (which I am trying to track down).