Oh no. Please no. I hope there’s a competitor to grow in Linode’s place.
Vultr is my pick.
Akamai to Acquire Linode
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#182I'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 just meaningless noise. Not even Aker probably believes this acquisition will go any differently than any other big-swallows-little deal.
1. In the short term, it's probably the same.
2. In the medium term, things start to get weird.
3. By the time Aker exits, Linode probably only exists as a brand. Everything special about it will be gone. Support will be offshore and terrible.
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#183Oh, snap. I am a longtime Linode customer. Somehow I fell disturbed by this news. Is there a valuable alternative out there? Just in case something happens with pricing or other things. You know what I mean.
I'm going to start looking, for sure. Just assume Akamai will ruin Linode within 24-36 months and plan accordingly.
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#184I love Linode. Strongly recommended. For many years, I have run all my websites and services (back-ends for apps, etc.) on a few $5/month Nanodes. For temporary/experimental stuff I sometimes use Vultr and Digital Ocean, but Linode's service and reliability is superior (especially versus Vultr). Linode is just top-notch.
You've clearly never experienced their Fremont datacenter.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There is no lower bound for reportable personal data breaches:
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great! If they let me have K8S clusters with 0 nodes I'll move back there.
I’m not sure I understand that use case? What is the point of a cluster without nodes.
I'm a K8S newbie, and running on DO, so take it with a grain of salt: I have a couple of `CronJob`s, running twice a day, that would run way faster on better hardware, but as far as I can tell, it's impossible to do so on DO unless I keep a cluster with a minimum of 1 node online all the time.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look, we are random internet people, and it's a "me vs. you" scenario, but as someone who worked at Linode in 2012, we were a small company, that all worked out of one office, with like 3 admins at the time. Yes, there were various hacks. Yes, there were silly vulns, but positing that one of the employees at that time stole bitcoin is something that I won't stand for. Could it have happened, sure. Do I think that it…
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.)
The sentiment I knew at the time was a mix of excitement at the cool new tech, skepticism of the usefulness of it (my camp), and drooling over using the GPU you already had to make easy money.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look, we are random internet people, and it's a "me vs. you" scenario, but as someone who worked at Linode in 2012, we were a small company, that all worked out of one office, with like 3 admins at the time. Yes, there were various hacks. Yes, there were silly vulns, but positing that one of the employees at that time stole bitcoin is something that I won't stand for. Could it have happened, sure. Do I think that it…
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 was on the mailing list the day the paper was released, and played around with the original PoC.
Lots of us thought bitcoin was dumb back then. Lots of us still do.
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#189God rest your soul Linode, we hardly knew ye.
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#190I 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…
Try vultr, they've worked well for me for small->medium projects.