Best Datacenter?
Also, what do I have to do to move since my IP will change? Obviously DNS and /etc/hosts, but what other items that I may miss as a newbie to linux administration?
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-Chris
@caker:
The one affected storage pool in Fremont is back in business since this morning.
-Chris
Of course, right after I get a failed snapshot this morning and decide I might move you guys get it working!
Went and did another snapshot and it's working fine. Thanks to all who worked hard to get it working.
I still want to see what people say about the datacenters :)
Also you forgot Atlanta.
Fremont = He.net
Dallas = The Planet
Atlanta =
Newark =
London =
@Alohatone:
Is there a list of IP Provider per data Center?
Fremont = He.net
Dallas = The Planet
Atlanta =
Newark =
London =
My London IP lists the block owner as "Linode, LLC" with the U.S. address. In fact, the entire IP segment "109.74.192.0 - 109.74.199.255" is assigned to Linode. As the segments next door are in entirely different countries, the closest I could find from the "Origin" field listed by the block, was TelecityGroup, which has 8 datacenters (!) spread across three main areas in London.
TelecityGroup also has datacenters all across Europe; in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Dublin (Ireland), Frankfurt (Germany), Manchester (also UK), Milan (Italy), Paris (France) and Stockholm (Sweden). They also appear to provide services to ThePlanet as well.
As for Newark, a lookup for newark1.linode.com leads to something called Net Access Corporation in New Jersey.
And for Atlanta, a lookup for atlanta1.linode.com leads to Global Net Access, LLC in Atlanta, or GNAX.
This information only matters if you're worried about power outages, natural disasters, peering/latency, etc.
What I find funny is people who think Dallas is awesome. It was only a few years ago when The Planet was competing with RackShack (who changed names to ev1 and then I think merged with Soft Layer as well) by offering $100/mo dedicated servers:
Anyone remember the Rack Shack forums? And then they started WHT? The guy who owned it was "Head Surfer" or something like that? They posted pictures of their super cheap servers which were really cheap whitebox towers thrown on to shelves somewhere in Florida with some RaQ4s thrown in?
@Alohatone:
Is there a list of IP Provider per data Center?
https://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/Network