From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F086139694 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 02:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C49D21C0F3; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 02:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from morpheus.jfr.im (morpheus.jfr.im [IPv6:2600:3c00::f03c:91ff:fe33:aae2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0191221C043 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 02:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hypnos.jfr.im (hypnos.jfr.im [10.0.0.4]) by morpheus.jfr.im (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 28806EF9F for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:38:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:38:29 -0500 From: John Runyon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Online hosting recommendation - VMs? Message-ID: <20170328023828.GA19320@hypnos.jfr.im> References: <864lyei252.fsf@local.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <864lyei252.fsf@local.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: a6a78b8c-678c-4dac-923c-a9467eeba35f X-Archives-Hash: baf0dfefbd14ec43ea070a4319a6596b On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:08:41PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > In the course of about 2 hrs my connections were dropped at least 15 > times and I think probably more. At some points I have more than one > login going, and I noticed if I left one idle for a few minutes it > would b dropped when I next attemtpted to use it... I mean really a > few minutes like 3 or so. > No issues that you've observed with other providers? Which location were you in? I've used Linode for years and never had issues (other than on certain connections where I need to enable keepalives due to my end closing it). But I've mostly stuck to their DFW location. > Remains to be seen how they respond. I only turned my trouble ticket > 7 minutes ago. > Their support is usually pretty quick and pretty customer-service-y. I'd be surprised if they didn't refund you in full (or at least pro-rated).