Thought folks might be interested that Linode, which faired well in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966555 seems to be currently experiencing a significant outage at their Dallas data center.

By the way, I've been very happy with Linode, this is my first major outage with them, but middle-of-the-day-outage is bad timing.

Any chance this is actually related to their recent good press? A surge in customers maybe?

For what it is worth, they seem to be coming back up now, approximately 30 minutes from the first reported outage on Twitter.

I can't access their main site and my site is down. =(

They also had a major outage last month and that one lasted for several hours..

I have the same problems now but escaped the last one without any issues. (I can ping my server, but that's it.)

In a few hours or days that twitter search link will be pointing to other tweets entirely, but I find it fascinating to watch the feed unfold. There have been maybe 50 tweets on this in the last 20 minutes, and more coming in all the time. Still no response on the Linode Twitter account. This is an interesting case of CRM on social media.

Interesting...I was just able to pull up everything hosted with them. Hopefully, it doesn't spread. :(