Linode Datacenter Outage - Fremont

May 30, 05:08 UTC
Update - Our upstream provider has provided a new estimated time to restoration of 11:30PM PDT.

May 30, 04:37 UTC
Update - Our upstream provider has provided a new estimated time to restoration of 10:00PM PDT.

May 30, 03:21 UTC
Update - At approximately 6:30PM PDT, the Fremont datacenter experienced a power utility outage. One out of eight generators also experienced an electromechanical failure. The estimated time to restoration is currently 9:30PM PDT. Linode has all hands on deck to get Linodes online as soon as power is restored.

May 30, 02:25 UTC
Update - We have received word from our colocation provider that there has been a power event in a section of the Fremont datacenter. The affected space is where a critical part of the datacenter network is located. The datacenter's electric provider is working with staff to restore power as soon as possible. Please watch this status page for further updates.

May 30, 01:47 UTC
Identified - We are aware of an issue within our Fremont datacenter and are investigating at this time. We will provide additional information as it becomes available.

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very nasty outage that affected this forum

So much so decided to setup a DNS based 503 maintenance failover back up for the forums so in future if such outages occur, it will failover at DNS level to an off host secondary VPS server setup for community.centminmod.com for SSL https which is permanently in 503 status maintenance mode. So from end user's perspective hitting forum domain when Linode datacenter is down will instead of broken page unavailable browser message, it will direct to secondary VPS and show a 503 maintenance message for visitors

The secondary VPS setup 503 maintenance message



from visitor perspective just 503 unavailable maintenance message on secondary VPS