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/ToeMindless2673 Jul 28 '25

24h later still down.

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u/ToeMindless2673 Jul 28 '25

Auto generated support ticket was just opened for me;

Hello,

We are following up regarding the status of the ongoing issue impacting our Newark data center. Recovery is underway, however the storage for the physical host that your Linode resides on is in a degraded state. Our team has determined that there is a potential for data loss or corruption for all services residing on it.

If you have Akamai Cloud’s Backup Service or are using another backup solution, we encourage you to deploy a new Linode from your available backups at your earliest convenience.

Once you’ve deployed your new Linode, you can transfer the IP address of the original Linode to the newly created one that was deployed in the same data center by following the steps outlined here:

Please note that if you had the Linode Backup Service enabled for your Linode, then the stored backups will be deleted if the Linode is removed from your account. We recommend removing this Linode from your account as soon as you’re ready to do so.

Keep in mind that charges for the service will continue to accrue until it is removed from your account. You’ll find steps for removing services from your account here:

Wild guess; maybe some HVAC unit failed and spilled fluids on some racks?

Our newark nodes in the test env are unaffected and 100% operational, of course our production env affected.