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Hexcles | 9 years ago
I believe it'd be more appropriate for Linode to say that, which has long had good reputation in terms of the variety of regions, the quality of network, etc., and which used to be on the more expensive end. DO, on the other hand, actually debuted with the low prices, if anyone remembers.
braveo|9 years ago
The article mentioned dataloss with Linode... I experienced the same problem. Well, technically the data was there, but there was a corruption problem and the disk was being mounted read-only. Their default settings for ext4 in their arch linux offerings was not 'data=journaled', and it should have been.
Well... I say it should have been, but I found out why it wasn't their default when I went to rebuild that VPS. Apparently something in their infrastructure doesn't work well with ext4 journaling because everytime I tried to set it to journaled (so I could avoid a repeat of the corrupted disk issue...) it would reboot lmounted as readonly and there was no way to fix the issue except to rebuild.
When I contacted them about it, they told me it was a "known issue" that would be fixed in the next 3-6 months.
That was the SECOND issue I found with them, the first is that doing a 'pacman -Syu' on a completely fresh install would hose the install... again, something to do with their infrastructure not working well with arch linux.
It took me days of fidding around and learning what I could, and could not do, before I was able to successfully rebuild that VPS.
I would absolutely love to find another VPS provider that offered arch linux with comparable performance.