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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by apple4ever »

Croftengea wrote: post #50

From Linode blog: For the immediate future, we will continue to operate as we always have. Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful. This acquisition will propel us both forward — not take anything away. Linode will soon be able to call on the power of Akamai to offer entirely new products, services, expertise, locations, and scale, while Akamai will be able to tap into Linode’s deep expertise…

> Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful

All the buyers say that now. In 2 years, it will change.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by duped »

ForHackernews wrote: post #71
bloodyplonker22 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Down 35% over the past ten years, which is terrible

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ethbr0 »

tempnow987 wrote: post #61
Scoundreller wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Wow, that some major root level compromise at linode. It's interesting how quiet they kept these things in those days.

One of the many reasons every country needs more serious, standard, and mandatory public disclosure laws for cloud infrastructure breaches.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by linuxlizard »

lukeqsee wrote: post #3

Really happy for Linode. I cannot say enough good things about the quality of their products and support. As a customer who's built significant value on their infrastructure, I'm a little bit worried about the impact this acquisition will have on their operations. I really hope it gives them the resources to improve on the same mission, and not the beginning of significant change!

As another long time user of Linode, I have had nothing but good experiences with them. I hope their quality stays up.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by cauterize »

danpalmer wrote: post #47

This is an interesting mix. In my experience Linode has a good UX and is well targeted at SMEs, whereas I'm not sure anyone has bought an Akamai contract anywhere but a golf course, and it has a UX to match. Is this Akamai trying to buy access to a market who would previously not even consider them, or is it Akamai trying to buy access to the more general cloud infrastructure market? If they're trying to do both I ca…

We failed to build Linode like things internally. We innovate through acquisition.

[ source: I was a part of those failures ]

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ivyirwin »

lukeqsee wrote: post #3

Really happy for Linode. I cannot say enough good things about the quality of their products and support. As a customer who's built significant value on their infrastructure, I'm a little bit worried about the impact this acquisition will have on their operations. I really hope it gives them the resources to improve on the same mission, and not the beginning of significant change!

Same here. Linode has been my go to infrastructure ever since I decided I needed to leave MediaTemple and become serious about my server infrastructure. I feel like Linode made me a better developer by helping me learn the devOps side of the business. Back in the day, their guides were the best in the business, though I feel like DO is winning that game now, especially from an SEO standpoint. These days I look for DO guides on how to tune my Linode machines.

Congrats to the Linode team, please don't leave us hanging!

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by btgeekboy »

imachine1980_ wrote: post #75
tempnow987 wrote: post #20

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…

this worry me, any similar compromise in digital ocean for example?

Not really a compromise but there was a point where they weren’t wiping block devices by default: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097

Not sure if that’s changed. (Hopefully it has!)

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by hughrr »

INTPenis wrote: post #34
tempnow987 wrote: post #20

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 hate to say it but I recently moved away from Linode after their /64 block in Frankfurt was banned by all Google services. And even though all their kubernetes nodes have a public ipv4 address they were somehow unable to fallback on this when their ipv6 didn't work. And when I suggested this to their support they acted like I was crazy and said there is no way to switch between ipv4 and ipv6. Well I don't work in n…

We blocked the entire of Linode AS63949 ranges because we were getting attacked from random owned nodes and it was tripping our IDS constantly. Just got fed up with it in the end and decided to hose them.

To note, we have had problems with AWS blocking random addresses as well where we've had staff abroad.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by wmf »

recuter wrote: post #66
chairmanwow1 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

One could reasonably conclude that they will start doing this soon under their newly acquired Linode subsidiary.

Or they'll make Linode "call for pricing".

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by folmar »

ethbr0 wrote: post #83
tempnow987 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that some major root level compromise at linode. It's interesting how quiet they kept these things in those days.

One of the many reasons every country needs more serious, standard, and mandatory public disclosure laws for cloud infrastructure breaches.

Looking from the end user end it seems nice, but will soon be weaponized in all possible mannar, sloppily executed, and too much data to ingest.

For reference there is mandatory disclosure of (serious) data breaches in the GPDR and it's very uncommon that the disclosure actually occurs.

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