After seeing yet another failure from the vps.net camp, this being FAR worse than anything I’ve seen before, I decided to jump ship.

What was this failure?  well…

It has to do with the licensing, the licenses stopped pinging, which made replication stop, which caused some services to stop, they then logged in and rebooted it, and thought it was back up, but upon mounting VMs, it came to the point where it was clear that there was corruption. We then were able to restore all the logical volumes, but even then, the VMs wouldn’t boot..that brings us to where we’re at now

From my point of view, my server died, wouldn’t come up and after 24 hours it still wasn’t available.  There seems to be a high chance there is a missing data….that’s to be checked later.

All very far from re-assuring.

So, over to Linode. Similar pricing for the basic stuff.

• The initial setup was very much the same on both providers, under 5 minutes and a new machine was ready to go.
• Installing the software I need, pretty quick – then again I’ve done it several times now.
• Restore backups from my Amazon AWS. It costs less than £3 per month to run what I require.
• Less than 4 hours after setting up the nodes I am back live with only emails delayed.

I must admit, I’m pretty impressed with the flexibility of the control panel for Linode. In addition to what vps.net offers, Linode has;

• A job queue
• Root password reset
• Rescue mode
• Kernel switch
• Custom disk sizing
• Custom drive mounting
• Alerts  on CPU usage, Disk IO, Traffic and Transfer Quota
• Auto-reboots – this has not yet been a problem anyway
• Additional RAM/Storage/Data Transfer all separately configurable

There may well be more as well. This is under 24 hours of signup which included sleep, work & setting up servers so much tinkering is still to be done.

My sites also seem more responsive as well, faster disks maybe?