fremont

In Fremont, you need a car (I once walked 3 miles through Fremont to get to my bed for the night.

For me: a) Average reliability - had numerous incidents at their London and Fremont DCs.

On 7/6 Berkeley to Fremont, 7/7 Walnut Creek to Fremont then San Jose (though I think it would be hard to get from WC to Fremont in 25 minutes...

The Fremont Lenin [3] statue has been for sale on and off over the years, the last time priced at $250K.

There's even a sizable percentage of Google cloud platform in Fremont and Kirkland.

Yes, I saw their stats of Fremont DC (in linode forum) and decided to not use it.

There were cuts in Alamo @ 11pm, and then in Fremont at 11:40pm.

Say you have a read-only site, and you have one copy in the Fremont CA data center, one in Frankfurt, and one in Asia.

To me, Fremont isn't even vaguely the same region as SF.

To give a counter to your example why don't you visit Sunnyvale and Fremont on the west coast which are heavily populated by the Indian community.

Clearly you haven't tried using their Fremont data centre.

But now I'm just repeating the grandparent's point: people who care about urban-ness are likely to consider both Fremont and LA suburban hell holes.

"maybe you should try one of their other datacenters instead of complaining about Fremont" Wow, just wow.

An area trying to be "the next silicon valley" that ignores the unsexy things happening in low industrial areas in Fremont or Alamaden Valley aren't ever going to be the same.

It's been sweet sailing for me for years, maybe you should try one of their other datacenters instead of complaining about Fremont.

It's not like the Linode HQ is close to Atlanta, Dallas or Fremont, either.

Fremont East is a popular spot, all of those bars, the Cortez etc.