* Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> [170327 22:09]: > Stroller, just a note on my experience this evening. I liked what I > saw about linode in this thread.. Decided to try them out. > > Got started with them... I was working from the command line in my new > gentoo vm provided by linode. Getting things setup the way I like > them. > > In the course of about 2 hrs my connections were dropped at least 15 > times and I think probably more. At some points I have more than one > login going, and I noticed if I left one idle for a few minutes it > would b dropped when I next attemtpted to use it... I mean really a > few minutes like 3 or so. > > Sometimes connections would drop while the login instance was > working... for example in the middle of a kernel compile. > > I decided I'd seen enough and was not interested in spending time > trying to determine what this was happening... so backed out and asked > for my account to be cancelled and charges to my Credit card canceled. > > Remains to be seen how they respond. I only turned my trouble ticket > 7 minutes ago. >
Wow. I've never had that experience and I've been using them for years. If I allow it I can keep SSH sessions to the instance up for weeks. I can't comment on customer service as I've never needed to speak to them. I'm using the Newark, NJ location. Todd
