I would jump away from Linode in a heartbeat if I found something comparable.
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.
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.