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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by _nickwhite »

As a long time Linode user, I hung in there through a lot of service issues and growing pains. Linode has always been just one of a handful of providers I have, and I figured at _some_ point, all of these issues will result in a solid platform. Well, over the last couple years, Linode HAS achieved this, and is now one of my most reliable platforms.

I also use Prolexic DDoS service from Akamai, which was a standalone company until 2014. Akamai bought them, and the service actually vastly improved, so let's hope that Linode + Akamai's size and buying power will result in something even better.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by frakkingcylons »

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…

You can’t just imply that the linode staff assisted or were involved in stealing crypto currency from their customers without actually providing any evidence.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by floatboth »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #16

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…

How is Akamai dying? Isn't Akamai still the largest CDN around?

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by hughrr »

Neil44 wrote: post #76
angst_ridden wrote: post #49

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.

Same, I moved from rackspace to linode and never looked back.

To be fair moving from rackspace to an OVH datacentre that's on fire is a step up from my experience. I occasionally have to deal with a Rackspace acquisition and it's hell.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by youngtaff »

apple4ever wrote: post #81
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.

Yeh, why buy them if things aren't going to change…

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ipaddr »

Scoundreller wrote: post #45
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…

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…

The one thing I don't understand is if that many coins were stolen and every transaction is traceable shouldn't there be a trail? The owner has 124 million reasons to find those coins. Is the ability to track past transactions not as possible as it seems?

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by Twirrim »

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 ended up dropping Linode as a result of the hacks, after having been a customer for years, both because of the nature of the hacks, and how they communicated.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by youngtaff »

floatboth wrote: post #93
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #16

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…

How is Akamai dying? Isn't Akamai still the largest CDN around?

Enterprise only sales model and has traditionally been very expensive and hard to buy.

When they launched their Image Manager product them had trouble persuading sales people to sell it are it reduced bandwidth charges

The legacy of lots of PoPs makes them expensive to run, and purges take longer but ironically may help when it cones to moving content to be really close to the end user

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by perrygeo »

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!

I've been a happy Linode customer for a full decade now. One thing I've always appreciated is that they grew sustainably and sensibly, keeping a focus on core competencies (VMs, disks, networking) rather than offering dozens of new services a year to keep pace with AWS, GCP, etc. Compared to the confusing, complex, and often buggy interfaces provided by Big Cloud, Linode has always been a breath of fresh air. I hope Akamai will realize that Linode customers really value this simplicity. Don't complect it!
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