On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote:
> 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. > I don't, I usually don't do kernel updates for that very reason. I was just giving the example that 5 minutes is short. > > 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 >
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