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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by christophilus »

freedomben wrote: post #137
hoistbypetard wrote: post #43

This worries me. I've been a happy Linode customer for a while. I've mostly only noticed Akamai when they were screwing something up for one of their customers. I try to be ready to migrate off of any service like this at the drop of a hat, but I suppose this is a good reminder to test my plans for getting off Linode, just in case.

Where are you gonna go if you leave Linode? Do you know yet? Digital Ocean is the most similar, but after getting burned hard by them I will never put myself in that vulnerable position again. I've been pretty happy with OVH thus far, but at least last time I checked the US presence was minimal and that's important to my customers.

For me, it’d be Vultr.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#152

Post by an_ko »

iam-TJ wrote: post #133
freedomben wrote: post #123

I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here. I get it, I'm worried too. I hate the modern trend of the exit always being an acquisition. I hate that the big companies scoop up the good little companies and ruin them. I hate it all. I feel very jaded too, and I'm very worried about what this means too. I have significant investment running on linode and I don't want to have to move it, which also means paying mor…

Quote from Chris Aker's Linode blog post [0]: "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…

That's what every Our Incredible Journey post says though... In my experience it has no effect on reality, it's just a form letter.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#153

Post by everfrustrated »

tomxor wrote: post #129
freedomben wrote: post #123

I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here. I get it, I'm worried too. I hate the modern trend of the exit always being an acquisition. I hate that the big companies scoop up the good little companies and ruin them. I hate it all. I feel very jaded too, and I'm very worried about what this means too. I have significant investment running on linode and I don't want to have to move it, which also means paying mor…

Agreed. I think we are all a bit too wary of destructive or anticompetitive acquisitions... but this really doesn't look like one of them, from what I understand they genuinely complement each other. Linode already use some of Cloudflare as part of their offering e.g nameservers, so I can already see how Akamai could begin to replace those under the hood and then augment Linode's existing services further to offer ne…

I have had multi million dollar accounts with both Akamai and AWS. Akamai's support was woeful bordering on incompetent. AWS on the other had has been at a very high standard. And no robots.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#154

Post by nativeit »

freedomben wrote: post #123

I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here. I get it, I'm worried too. I hate the modern trend of the exit always being an acquisition. I hate that the big companies scoop up the good little companies and ruin them. I hate it all. I feel very jaded too, and I'm very worried about what this means too. I have significant investment running on linode and I don't want to have to move it, which also means paying mor…

I've been using Linode exclusively to host my (admittedly paltry) compliment of VPS's for several years now. They have provided me with outstanding service throughout my time with them, including truly being there for me a few times during the onset of the pandemic in 2020 where I really needed a helping hand to keep my business going. I don't have any experience with Akamai, but Linode has earned my trust and loyalty, and that will continue until I see some reason to reconsider that.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#155

Post by Osiris »

freedomben wrote: post #123

I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here. I get it, I'm worried too. I hate the modern trend of the exit always being an acquisition. I hate that the big companies scoop up the good little companies and ruin them. I hate it all. I feel very jaded too, and I'm very worried about what this means too. I have significant investment running on linode and I don't want to have to move it, which also means paying mor…

What other kind of "exit" is there? There's IPO or sale. My problem is VC funded startups is that they aren't trying to build a business.

There needs to be another way for a business to take on investment without focusing on an exit.

The DAO model is really interesting (I current work for one) which allows investors to exit any time they want by just selling the tokens they bought.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#156

Post by freedomben »

mmaunder wrote: post #109

Congrats Linode. Been a user since they launched. Even the diehards (like me) have moved a lot to AWS and competitors. Lindode's biz feels stuck in the previous decade, and I think the $900MM purchase price reflects that. Hopefully the founders had a great exit and move on to create new amazing things! Best of luck to the Linode team.

Interesting, I disagree but appreciate your perspective. AWS and competitors are just getting way too expensive and they're focusing so much on higher-level products. Some people just need a VM and a DB, and don't want to have to higher an expert just to estimate how much it will cost every month and pray they don't have something go viral that uses up a bunch of egress data.

I don't see bigger companies moving yet (most of them are building their own infra on top of OpenShift and VMware), but I know a few small companies that are.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#157

Post by tomxor »

everfrustrated wrote: post #153
tomxor wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I think we are all a bit too wary of destructive or anticompetitive acquisitions... but this really doesn't look like one of them, from what I understand they genuinely complement each other. Linode already use some of Cloudflare as part of their offering e.g nameservers, so I can already see how Akamai could begin to replace those under the hood and then augment Linode's existing services further to offer ne…

I have had multi million dollar accounts with both Akamai and AWS. Akamai's support was woeful bordering on incompetent. AWS on the other had has been at a very high standard. And no robots.

> Akamai's support was woeful bordering on incompetent.

Isn't that the point? Akamai's weakness and Linode's strength.

I've no experience with Akamai at all so i'm interested in your's. However support quality and service quality are not always correlated, especially when support has been highly siloed or outsourced. Obviously they affect each other, but are you able to distinguish them? Would you be able to offer us any insight into the quality of the service they provided separate from the support issues?

> I have had multi million dollar accounts [...] AWS on the other had has been at a very high standard. And no robots.

I mean, once you are paying millions you are guaranteed a real person. I was talking about the small scale support issues which from what I hear on AWS usually results in automated responses. This is where Linode and AWS definitely differ.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#158

Post by syshum »

iam-TJ wrote: post #133
freedomben wrote: post #123

I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here. I get it, I'm worried too. I hate the modern trend of the exit always being an acquisition. I hate that the big companies scoop up the good little companies and ruin them. I hate it all. I feel very jaded too, and I'm very worried about what this means too. I have significant investment running on linode and I don't want to have to move it, which also means paying mor…

Quote from Chris Aker's Linode blog post [0]: "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…

"for the immediate future, we will continue to operate as we always have." == 18-24 mos of transition, then founders exit, and company starts its merge into larger org.

Happens every time

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#159

Post by synergy20 »

Using Linode since it started till today, it's stable and great and its support is also good(only used it twice out of ~20 years), but it kind of got overshadowed by digitalocean.

All the best to Linode, I will keep using it unless something changed dramatically.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by kornhole »

What a coincidence that Cloudflare today announced their switch from rCaptcha to hCaptcha. Now that I can assure people accessing my service that they won't get Googled, I have a good reason to switch from Linode VPN VPS to CF Argo tunnel.
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