Agreed! Linode needs a Datacenter in Canada!

This would absolutly rock!

After using Linode I expect so much from other providers and always disapointed.

Linode please consider Canada, there are some very good datacenters in both Montreal and Toronto.

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Denny

I think South America would be great! There are no good VPS providers here, most of them don't even sell VPS, only Dedicated, and lot's of them ressell USA servers...

I live in Brazil, and there is no good servers (VPS or Cloud) at a low to medium price, that is located in Brazil or even South America, i'ts a niche that is waiting someone to get it!

Yes South America is also a good idea!

Isnt there a big datacenter being built in Columbia?

I've heard that most South American countries aren't interconnected with each other very well. If true, that would make it a pretty bad place for Linode to choose, at least until they've taken over the world and actually will have large numbers of customers in any South American countries.

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I'd say canada, since I always see people asking for servers in canada due to canada's privacy laws.

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While we do have much better privacy laws than the US, it doesn't necessarily help. The server/business presence might be in Canada, making Linode subject to Canadian privacy laws, but the company is in the US.

If there is a court order in the US to turn over some information, Linode can be compelled to do it even if it means breaking Canadian law.

Bugger...I hate legal gobbledegook!

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Keep in mind that IANAL. I believe that some companies create independent copies of themselves in different countries to avoid this issue.

I'm trying to find a xen vps provider in Chicago right now. I would love it if Linode expanded there. I'm having a hard time trusting the possible providers I've found there.

why do you need to be in Chicago? Newark has great connectivity to Chicago.

It's a balancing act. I'm running Urban Terror game servers. The route to Dallas isn't as stable as I'd like for my European players, and putting it in Newark causes more issues with my West coast (Oregon and Washington) players.

Chicago would mean the route for my European players doesn't have to go through DC and Atlanta, where the problem seems to be -- without causing much of a change for those in Oregon, etc. Of course, this is all speculation at this point, but I need a VPS in Chicago to test things out.

If I went back to Newark, I'd need to look at the routes from the west coast again... there was something causing issues there before.

Hostgator is now in India. But I really love to see Linode in India. And also wanted some managed and semi-managed service.

Linode Datacenter #6: India
Linode Datacenter #7: Tokyo
Linode Datacenter #8: Canada
Linode Datacenter #9: Australia
Linode Datacenter #10: Korea

5 Year Plan for Linode expansion!!

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lol are you crazy? India is only good for indian people! traffic to other countries is crap because of poor connections! India must develop their infrastructure first!

Toronto does not need a Linode datacenter. That would be wasteful, Toronto is only 750KM from Newark. You might shave off 10-20ms for Toronto, and 0-10ms for Montreal, but that's not really a significant difference.

On the other hand, if you put a datacenter in Australia, or some other place far from Linode's existing datacenters (Asia somewhere), you could eliminate 100ms or more for entire countries.

There could be regulatory/legal reasons where Canada would be preferable to the US, but it's quite possible that linode being a US company wouldn't help.