Linode Linode users - thought about alternatives ?

eva2000 · Jan 10, 2016

harryneopotter said: ↑

Dediserve, Delimiter, iwstack all have good reputation for production level servers. No one tried them here?
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Dediserve too slow particularly for network speeds 250Mbps-500Mbps capped Benchmarks - DigitalOcean vs Linode vs Vultr vs Dediserve - London vs Singapore VPS benchmarks | Centmin Mod Community but i still have a Dediserve Sydney VPS due to large bandwidth quota and Dediserve folks support/billing wise has been one of the most accommodating I've experienced.

Dediserve default to 250Mbps cap but I asked them if they'd raise me to 500Mbps cap, they said fine as long as averages are <250Mbps. My Dediserve LA node at $199/month for 32 cpus for test usage isn't being used right now for the specific testing I have planned for it, so I was going to cancel as I don't have time to do those tests for next 3 months. They said they'd comp me for that 3 months for free ! But if your site requirements are <250-500Mbps then should be good with Dediserve but Sydney is still slow - you can see network tests at Centminmod.com Geo Location VPS Cluster Page Speed Analysis | Centmin Mod Community

Dediserve Sydney vs Cloudshard Sydney both are in same Sydney datacenter FYI

Cloudshard Sydney
Code:
wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2015-07-30 15:06:06--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[==========================================>] 104,857,600 47.3M/s   in 2.1s 

2015-07-30 15:06:08 (47.3 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
Dediserve Sydney @500Mbps network limit
Code:
wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2015-07-30 15:06:06--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net (cachefly.cachefly.net)|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

100%[==========================================>] 104,857,600 20.6MB/s   in 4.7s

2015-07-30 15:06:11 (21.2 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [104857600/104857600]

dorobo · Jan 10, 2016

Is everything back to normal at Linode as far as the DDOS is concerned?

eva2000 · Jan 10, 2016

dorobo said: ↑

Is everything back to normal at Linode as far as the DDOS is concerned?
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looks okay but hard to know

maybe need to wait until Linode posts a full report and what measures they intend to deploy

Matt · Jan 12, 2016

I'm still holding out for the full post mortem. I've had quite a few customers ask for alternative providers, but apart from this issue, they have been faultless. While I moved my own Linode away, another factor was the USD to GBP conversion, and the lack of PayPal payment option, as my card gets charged a non-GBP transaction fee.

eva2000 · Jan 12, 2016

Matt said: ↑

I'm still holding out for the full post mortem. I've had quite a few customers ask for alternative providers, but apart from this issue, they have been faultless. While I moved my own Linode away, another factor was the USD to GBP conversion, and the lack of PayPal payment option, as my card gets charged a non-GBP transaction fee.
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Yeah still waiting on the full report from Linode. Though I rather they have the mitigation measures in place or are working on deploying such as opposed to time just outlining the report of what they're going to do heh.

Skippy · Jan 12, 2016

Linode Blog » Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset

looks like a staff member? has replied to questions in the comments on their blog.

eva2000 · Jan 12, 2016

Skippy said: ↑

Linode Blog » Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset

looks like a staff member? has replied to questions in the comments on their blog.
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thanks for the heads up

mkorsak January 11th, 2016 at 2:01 pm
@Les Aker: We did not expire API keys, and we don’t have any reason to believe you need to reset them.

@Rodrigo: We discovered two Linode.com user credentials on an external machine but have no indication that anyone obtained or used them to access our database. No vulnerability was identified, but we chose to expire all customer passwords out of an abundance of caution.

@Wolfram: The suspicious activity occurred within the past few weeks. When discovered, we immediately launched an investigation. We will share a detailed report in the near future once our investigation is complete.

@Ryush00: While the hashes are salted, we advise you to reset your credentials anywhere you have used them. Moving forward you will want to ensure that you are using security best practices, such as not reusing passwords on various services.

@Denny: At this time our investigation shows that only the users table may have been accessed. The users table does not contain credit card data.

@TC: We began sending out emails within a few hours of our public announcement. The emails went out in batches so our customer support representatives would not be overwhelmed with questions all at once. All Linode customers have now been notified by email. A link to the announcement appeared on the password reset page, so anyone prompted to reset their password before receiving email notification would have seen the notice there.

@Jorge: As soon as we concluded that a password reset was warranted, we immediately invalidated all passwords, posted the public notice and began sending the notification emails. We made the decision not to include a link to reset the password in the email so our customers would not mistake the notice for a phishing scam.

@Kyhwana: Our information security policies do not permit us to disclose this information.

@Nate: We would be happy to provide you with the login entries for your account. Please submit a support ticket.

@Alexander: This is because the app uses an API key. We did not expire the API keys.

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BoostN · Jan 13, 2016

So I still have my main site on Linode.. I love it for the speed and uptime.. I've never had a problem out of them..

Skippy · Jan 14, 2016

We should see the DDoS post-mortem blog post soon.

Linode Status - An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks

We will be providing a more detailed post-mortem about the DDoS attacks we experienced over the holidays on our blog as soon as possible. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to support.
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eva2000 · Jan 14, 2016

Skippy said: ↑

We should see the DDoS post-mortem blog post soon.

Linode Status - An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks
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thanks @Skippy

Skippy · Jan 30, 2016

https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospective/

eva2000 · Jan 30, 2016

Skippy said: ↑

Linode Blog » The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks
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sweet

Our Future is Brighter Than our Past
With these lessons in mind, we’d like you to know how we are putting them into practice.

First, the easy part: we’ve mitigated the threat of attacks against our public-facing servers by implementing DDoS mitigation. Our nameservers are now protected by Cloudflare, and our websites are now protected by powerful commercial traffic scrubbing appliances. Additionally, we’ve made sure that the emergency mitigation techniques put in place during these holiday attacks have been made permanent.

By themselves, these measures put us in a place where we’re confident that the types of attacks that happened over the holidays can’t happen again. Still, we need to do more. So today I’m excited to announce that Linode will be overhauling our entire datacenter connectivity strategy, backhauling 200 gigabits of transit and peering capacity from major regional points of presence into each of our locations.
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KeVo · Jan 30, 2016

Like I said earlier, I think Linode is better off now after experiencing those unfortunate attacks. They fully acknowledged their faults and seem to be enhancing their network which will ultimately provide Linode users with a better service going forward.

eva2000 · Jan 30, 2016

KeVo said: ↑

Like I said earlier, I think Linode is better off now after experiencing those unfortunate attacks. They fully acknowledged their faults and seem to be enhancing their network which will ultimately provide Linode users with a better service going forward.

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Agreed... maybe further down the track they can extend that DDOS mitigation protection for Linode VPS servers themselves too

KeVo · Jan 30, 2016

eva2000 said: ↑

Agreed... maybe further down the track they can extend that DDOS mitigation protection for Linode VPS servers themselves too
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I think it might be only a matter of time. Vultr has already implemented a BETA DDoS protection add-on with their service. Hope that it is something that the likes of DigitalOcean and Linode see and implement in the future. It doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility as many companies compete to offer similar services as their competitors. Maybe it will be one the others take up.

eva2000 · Jan 30, 2016

Indeed for most large web hosting or cloud providers, DDOS protection is just a matter of when not if

Xon · Jan 30, 2016

I'm not surprised they ran into the limits of facility transit, and needed todo their own transit like that.

eva2000 · Feb 2, 2016

Xon said: ↑

I'm not surprised they ran into the limits of facility transit, and needed todo their own transit like that.
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Indeed although Linode's future looks very bright once they have all these measures in place !

ModeltogTossen · Feb 2, 2016

eva2000 said: ↑

Indeed although Linode's future looks very bright once they have all these measures in place !
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Do you guys not think that all this will only bring price increasing?

eva2000 · Feb 2, 2016

ModeltogTossen said: ↑

Do you guys not think that all this will only bring price increasing?
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maybe, if they do announce such, then just time to re-evaluate all options

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