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I'm wondering how much of this is perception...

The number of reported issues coming through has exploded since Akamai. Over the last week alone, almost every day a new networking issue for London is in my inbox. However - none of the recent ones have actually affected any one of my Linodes, even though it's possible since it falls under the service and datacenter - perhaps the change we are seeing is more transparency?

I'm not saying no one is affected... as others in this thread clearly are, and I was affected by the datacenter wide outage in London earlier in the year - but it's possible that being more upfront in notifications of issues could change the perception of what before would have been considered a collection of isolated incidents.</speculation>

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I generally appreciate transparency, but when it comes to varying degrees of service disruption maybe there is a balance to be struck... right now it feels like the signal to noise ratio is low in terms of it's affect across all users even within an area.

Right now I am pretty much ignoring the Linode issues filling my inbox, if a serious one came through I'd probably miss it.



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