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Akamai to Acquire Linode
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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#52I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
Have they gotten faster at applying updates? it would take something like 45 minutes to an hour to make any changes back in 2014, when Fastly was doing sub-minute updates for any CDN changes.
Yes, Akamai let’s you deploy changes within minutes if not quicker, that changes several years ago.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#53I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
"they just suck at selling to the developer."
They have all the major compagnies / F500, though so no need to appeal to the HN crowd.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#54How does DigitalOcean compare to Linode these days? One thing I noticed off the bat is that Linode still offers phone and email support, versus just a ticketing system interface.
Linode has better support, DigitalOcean is a lot closer to a cloud-lite setup with better APIs for automation etc.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#55I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
They explicitly choose not to sell to the developer. They want big fish customers. This is why I can’t find pricing on their homepage.
Historically that's all there was. Random companies didn't need CDNs and associated services. They ran a couple servers in a data-center somewhere and called it good. Not like a website for a company that manufactures dairy processing equipment needs to handle a lot of load. The big corporate customers where who bought that stuff. Then AWS came along.
It's a classic case of not seeing the up and coming market because you were winning the existing market.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#56I had a sour taste from what I remember being misleading communication around very serious control plane hacks of linode. A lot of bitcoin theft in 2012 (maybe by their own staff?) 2013 some kind of cold fusion / HTP hack Another CF / HTP hack here. 2014 brought the MySQL server no password stuff. 2015 ish some kind of total root compromise? You can get a feel for all this here including the denials / lack of notific…
A 2012 Bitcoin hack victim was none other than a lead developer of Bitcoin. Back then, they ran a Bitcoin faucet on it that gave out a paltry 0.25 Bitcoin at a time. I never bothered to jump through those hoops for like a dollar (now about US$10k): http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/03/bitcoin-faucet-hacked.... He only lost 5 bitcoin (like $20 then or $200k today), but another lost 3100, or around… $124 million today…
somebody please explain to me how is it possible that the owner reports losing $124 million, then they casually mention in the reply that: no problem, I'll just cover it with my own money ...
(another recent story on ether hack had the same "resolution" the organization just chose to replaced the losses) ...
where is that money coming from? does not seem real
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#57One dying company absorbing another dying company. Linode has really gone down the tubes. Just try to find out what the prices are for their services. Or how to actually use any of the services they provide besides a VM instance. Can you find the magical documentation site without Google? I couldn't. And pricing for some services requires you to sign up for an account and attempt to deploy the service, or you have to…
I'm not understanding what you want to be different. Pricing and docs are both linked to from the menu at the top of the Linode.com homepage. I did not need to do any searching, figurative or literal, to find them.
> Just try to find out what the prices are for their services.
From the Linode.com homepage, click "products" in the main menu, click any product, and the pricing is on the page. There's a "view full price list" link on each page to a price list for all products on a single page:
https://www.linode.com/pricing/
> Can you find the magical documentation site without Google?
From the Linode.com homepage, click "Docs" at the top. "Docs" is linked to https://www.linode.com/docs/
If you start from a product page, each contains a direct link to that product's section of the docs. For example, the Kubernetes page links directly to https://www.linode.com/docs/products/compute/kubernetes/ with the link "View product documentation >", above the fold.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#58I was really close to becoming a Linode customer last week for several large boxes, but ended up buying hardware and self-hosting.
The cost to cut in an enterprise fiber link (1000/400) to our office was surprisingly low.
My experience trialling linode as a paying customer was really positive (VERY competitive price, great performance), only complaint being their NodeBalancer can’t automatically handle certificates like CF and AWS can.
Also, it needs to be mentioned because there’s a lot of negative in this thread: HUGE shout out to Linode for being massive community supporters and donating HEAPS of free compute to uni clubs and such, pretty much anyone with a charity certificate who asks for it. Fantastic company that’s easy to ‘just talk to people’ rather than trying to find the right support silo.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#59I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
"they just suck at selling to the developer." They have all the major compagnies / F500, though so no need to appeal to the HN crowd.
Yep, that's exactly how large businesses like IBM and HP have failed.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#60I can’t wait until I can just setup a database, nodes and it will just handle auto scaling, maintenance and tuning by itself - on my own hardware.
It’s crazy how much you need to know to do the above.
Akamai - make it happen!