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Managed databases should be coming soon to Linode: https://www.linode.com/products/databases/
Great! If they let me have K8S clusters with 0 nodes I'll move back there.
I also hope this opens up Akamai CDN / DDoS access to consumers rather than Enterprise. Not that it matter as much anymore in the era of Cloudflare.
Hopefully this gives enough resources for Linode to continue and grow.
I can't think of many cases where an acquisition served customers well. Often the distinctive things that make a company appealing are lost as costs are slashed, good staff flee and the parent tries to capture customers into their existing products and services. My impression of Akamai was always if you have to ask the price then you can't afford it. It seems an odd match. I guess the thinking is that they both have…
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 ]
After dealing with Akamai at a past role I can only offer my condolences to Linode customers.
I 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 l…
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.
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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".
It would be a much bigger hurdle for Linode to become enterprise-friendly than for Akamai to become developer-friendly.
Akamai is "call for pricing" because they never evolved from an enterprise product. And no "enterprise" just buys off the shelf. They negotiate with a long budget, vendor risk management, legal, etc. process. Its unlikely that many of their contracts are even the same verbiage.
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I think in 2012 the tech community's sentiment was actually that Bitcoin was really cool and definitely useful, since it was new and did things in a practical application that we hadn't seen before. It's interesting that hindsight clouds that, it has been viewed negatively for years now but it's not that old yet. (Either way, your main point stands of course.)
> I think in 2012 the tech community's sentiment was actually that Bitcoin was really cool and definitely useful I don't think there was ever really a consensus on this. Lots of people (myself included, but also quite a few friends) always thought Bitcoin was just kinda useless. It's just that in 2012 there were comparatively low stakes (i.e. no massive energy use, not yet massive amounts of people pouring money in i…
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.
There are some smaller differences. DO has more managed DB offerings, but Linode is catching up quickly. I really like Linode's Lish tool. I also like Linode's Green Light Program.