I haven't backuped my data... PANIC!!!

Don't worry, its a network problem, I'm sure your data will be safe.

I'm losing money :°(

I think it is time for linode to offer a dns failover between its datacenters.

Will there be something done in the future to prevent this? So if one upstream provider is having a problem people will still be able to connect while the problem is being resolved.

Do you guys have any idea what's going on?

It's pretty unusual for a data center to have connectivity problems that take this long to sort out.

Yes please. I'm very keen to dual host in London/Newark, and hoping the backup system will make it easy for me to maintain synch.

"Keen", in this case, should be read as "ready to throw money at Linode".

I'm a new Linode customer, this Newark issue brought up a question:

If I had more than one node and in different datacenters, but only one node active at a time (web server, for example), if the active node's datacenter went down, couldn't I bring up the alternate node and change the DNS records in the Linode DNS Manager to point to my alternate node? And then be back in business once the DNS changes propagate? Of course, this assumes that the alternate node keeps in sync with the active node.

The issue appears to be resolved now.

So solved in about 2 hours...that seems reasonable.

Does Linode publish more information about the problem?

Yes this brings up a major concern over DNS failover. I would pay for additional nodes if I could get the DNS failover to operate between data centers.

It's there, and has been for some time.

http://www.linode.com/api/index.cfm?method=domain.resource.update

Set the TTL nice and low, and failover should take <20 minutes from when your systems detect a problem; if failover needs to happen more quickly, you'll probably need to set up your own master nameservers and push updates that way.

Sure, in the same ways I could have run my own crons to do local backups. But I'd much rather pay to have it done for me. No admin, and somebody else to blame if it fails. What's not to like?

I don't even want to know my second box exists, never mind keeping it in synch. I just want it to automagically (and preferably immediately) pick up the load the next time Newark has network problems.

That's getting well into the realm of a managed service, alas. There is no way to implement that as a service, without severely limiting the applications and configurations allowed. By that point, it's merely high-availability web hosting.

There are, of course, a myriad of contract sysadmins and developers who could make this work for your particular situation, but they aren't under the Extras tab