I still remember the Linode 1, those were horrible - you had to edit the hard drive data by hand using little tiny magnets.

James

Indeed... it was long enough ago that the battle cry was for "More Core!", even using the old-style spelling of "moar". Those were the old days.

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I was going to say the only thing I currently want is IPv6 in Atlanta, but looks like it's on the way (at least if the "Internal Testing" on the IPv6 status page tells me anything).

For what it's worth, if you enable zone transfers in the DNS manager, you can always do a 'dig @nsX.linode.com. jeremyj.com. axfr" to see that data. (Of course, so can anyone else!)

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Matt Nordhoff (aka Peng on IRC)

Just one thing I want to see improved.


1. Augment API to enable linodes to be cloned.

viewtopic.php?t=4920&highlight=api+create

I want to have a single tested image that I can use as a basis for nightly backups to be restored to.

Thus each night the standby linode would be cloned from a standardised base install, and the backups restored to that.

I don't want to re-install the entire thing (as versions in repos might change, it will be slower, etc.) I know that I can 'pin' versions in repos, but there is far more to my configurations than just the setup of a repo. Short of reproducing various repos for myself, and packaging up lots of other software into RPMs for those repos (to ensure availability), it would be far less work for me to simply be able to clone linodes and apply the data changes from the backup.

And as there were several people asking for this a couple of years back, I don't feel my request is too obscure

I know exactly how you feel >.>.



1. That ^, more or less. Cheaper, necessarily slower add-on storage option(s).

2. More/better short-term billing options. There's a handful of things I'd like to be able to test out on Linodes of varying sizes for a day or two at a time, but it's kind of a pain in the ass to do so at the moment.

3. A datacentre in Australia, or at least somewhere in SEA. In all honesty, dealing with the 200ms-ish latency with US servers isn't that bad for the most part, but it does ruin some otherwise cool ideas.

just hope linode will have datacenter in Asia, like as singapore or hongkong.

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http://zhaoke.com

I've had clients refuse cloud based applications because there are possibilities of connection failures and prefer local servers. From what I can remember a few years ago a line in the Mediterranean was severed due to an underwater earthquake and there were outages all over Africa, Balkans and the Middle East.

Considering the submarine cables and their rate of failure (which is not low) DCs should be set up at least on every continent. (Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, etc..) I would accept a slightly higher fee for these (remote?) DCs.

We love the linode "system" - even if the management interface never changes, that's ok with us. I understand its not worth having the ability to move IPs between data centers (while possible, not worth it)....

I really only have 1 request.

Move to a California InterNap Datacenter and get out of HE.net.

Never changes? It was completely replaced less than a year ago.

These Fremont downtimes are making my clients extremely angry at me. They are my only complaint and they are enough to make me second guess linode and make me look at other options again.

2nd that.

Yep. I know a hand full of people doing exactly that at this moment. Incredibly disappointing.

Using only one datacenter is like putting all your eggs in one basket. Best to have a server in at least two or three different physical locations for your important stuff. I doubt Google would have lasted this long with only one datacenter, they'd be lagging to a standstill if they tried that, not to mention all the hackers, and the high possibility of losing service altogether

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Kris the Piki Geeker

1) Ditch centos and include scientific linux. SL has been way better with keeping things up to date, actually has a security team dedicated to testing upstream packages. If it's good enough for the LHC it's good enough for me.

2) Manage multiple linode accounts with one login. I'd like the billing for my private VPS separate from any I manage for someone else. I know, the answer to this before was "you can use the api to manage multiple accts", but this is my wishlist, and I'll put what I want on it.

3) domain registration. yeah, this has been asked for before too.