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"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.
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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
One 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…
Both are the top menu.
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Yep, that's exactly how large businesses like IBM and HP have failed.
Ah yes, the terrible failure of checks notes $116.46 billion market cap. https://companiesmarketcap.com/ibm/marketcap/
I wish I could fail so hard.
I 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…
I have a lot of infrastructure on Linode, and have been a customer for many years. I've been very happy with the price/performance, especially compared with large providers some of my customers use like Rackspace. I hope that being part of a public company won't cause too much pressure to reduce services or raise prices.
How 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.
And they answer the phone. I've called their support line many times to report business-impacting issues, and they always answer within seconds (literally), provide competent support, follow-up, and genuinely care . Linode support may be better than Amex Platinum Card support. :-)
After dealing with Akamai at a past role I can only offer my condolences to Linode customers.