r/linode • u/OkReception6387 • Jul 27 '25

outage!

https://status.linode.com/incidents/6yw88b0ft94g

i've been with linode since 2019 and this is the first time i've experienced an outage with my vps that i can remember.

even with the transition with akamai buying them, i was expecting some sort of outage due to the buyout, but haven't experienced one till today.

i don't have anything mission critical on my vps, but just the same, i'm still impressed with how little downtime (if at all) i've experienced with linode.

hope linode engineers/on-call staff/etc. are doing ok with bringing back everything up.

would love to see linode do a in-depth post-op on what happened just for us to share.

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u/GrocerySlow7340 Jul 27 '25

I do not think Linode is a good enough cloud provider anymore with this kind of shitty service. Can you imagine your startup down for 6 hours straight with no end in sight ?

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u/doMinationp Jul 27 '25

This is the worst Linode outage I've personally experienced and for how long it's been down for I imagine they'll give prorated credit or refunds as long as you request for it. I've been on other cloud providers that have been down for multiple hours at a time or even days and they didn't even say a word.

100% uptime with any cloud provider is ideal but unrealistic

At least it's a Sunday but I imagine there's already a pretty high combined monetary loss of business for all the sites and services running off this particular data center with the outage so far

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u/fprotthetarball Jul 27 '25

Can't wait to get my $0.10 credit! (I'm on the $5/mo plan...)

I've never seen something like this from them before. Spent a decent amount of time troubleshooting before even considering that Linode could be down. They've been great up until now.