On Tuesday 22 December 2009 01:19:04 pm Peter Manis wrote: > I've been using Linode since October 2008, and only recently have I > experienced any problems. I have Pingdom uptime checks done every minute, > and in the last 8 months I have only had 4 checks that failed (40 minutes > total - 12/13/09, 10/27/09, 08/05/09, 06/22/09).
Thanks for your input. Good stuff to know. > 5 minutes of downtime a month is the same as doing monthly system updates > and rebooting. Why do you have to reboot? We've only ever had to reboot for kernel updates, and similarly to many webhosting companies, we don't update to a new kernel just because it's there. We sometimes reboot for convenience (easier after library updates than to figure out exactly what is using which library) but even then actual reboots are more like every six months (sometimes longer). We do have short service downtimes for restart at the end of a service update, but that's neither as long nor as impacting as a reboot. > Hope that helps It does. We're going to look at them before the first of the year, when we're going to add VPS hosting to our mix (we're moving more and more to reselling others, with our value add; at age 65 I'm interested in not having to maintain a datacenter much longer). Thanks! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
