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Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ac29 »

lucb1e wrote: post #128
ipaddr wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Digital ocean makes a hundred fifty million more in revenue and 50 million more in profits. I don't think digital ocean will acquire them or merge.

What are you comparing? Surely DigitalOcean isn't bigger than Cloudflare or do I have my perception entirely backwards? Guessing that you're comparing DigitalOcean to Linode instead, 50M seems like a very small difference actually. Btw I find the large split words as numbers ("makes 150M more" -> "makes a hundred fifty million more") quite hard to read, but maybe that's just me.

For 2020 (the last full year for both companies):

Cloudflare (NET) has higher revenue: $431M vs $318M

Digital Ocean (DOCN) has higher profit (net income): -$44M to -$119M

Cloudflare is growing revenue faster, but also increasing losses to get there.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

lukeqsee wrote: post #15
kodah wrote: post #11

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.

And they answer the phone. I've called their support line many times to report business-impacting issues, and they always answer within seconds (literally), provide competent support, follow-up, and genuinely care . Linode support may be better than Amex Platinum Card support. :-)

They answer the phone at 11pm central (USA) time, with a human who speaks good English, even when the customer (me) pays them ~$15 per month.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by rhizome »

bigiain wrote: post #204
rhizome wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Target should have had difficulty surviving as a company as a result of penalties-if-not-prison for their 2013 breach, but we see what happened there.

Should that same existential penalty be applied to every company who had Log4J running in prod a few months back? That was a much more widespread root compromise...

Not comparable. Log4j was a vulnerability in the software, not leaving their shit open and and putting all their cash registers on an intranet available to the internet.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/inside-target-corp-days-...

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by geuis »

Goddamnit. I was already having a bad day.

I've run jsonip.com off of linode for over a decade. They've been incredibly reliable as a hosting service.

I don't have any experience with Akamai, but I generally find acquisitions are the death of any good service.

Goddamn it.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

ritcgab wrote: post #79

I have moved away from Linode since they started billing VMs in hours. I don't like that cloud bs.

They bill VMs per hour for small duration VMs only. If it sticks around for months, they charge you the listed per-month price, which is less than the hourly rate * one month.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by Galanwe »

mattbaker wrote: post #210
tempnow987 wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't edit my comment. As I noted elsewhere, there's an opportunity to do the right thing when someone comes to you and says look, someone is coming in on the control plane and resetting my server passwords. And yes, that includes looking at your staff especially when bitcoin is in the mix as its less traceable to a person. For some reason, for year after year, there was this pattern. No problem, we have good secur…

I’m really struggling to see how “the company’s response to security breaches was inappropriate” logically leads to “staff might be stealing Bitcoin.” It’s a baseless and unfair attack and I think you should consider deleting your original comment.

I wouldn't say it "logically leads to", but it does seem to be a fair question to ask.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by geuis »

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.

Me too. Used a different service more than 15 years ago that provides a ton of resources at an inexpensive price, then it was bought by rack space. Quickly migrated to Linode after that.

There aren't any clear alternatives to Linode this time.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by 7mpR4nd0 »

If you work at Linode now is time to get the hell out. 250+ employees and barely anything to show for it. You fell behind DO and Vultr and caker took the easy way out. Follow your customers and leave.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by mattl »

archon810 wrote: post #216
mattl wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, but DO as well.

Same but also about a hundred others in my block list, except it's not enough because they keep on coming and new ones popping up all the time.

Would you mind sharing?

Email address in profile

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by thayne »

chaxor wrote: post #209
Beltalowda wrote: post #134

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> 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…

I find this exceedingly hard to believe. Around 2009-2010, btc was definitely not an "asset" (like the bafoons try to treat it now). It * was a currency* . Many still believe in the idea that (certain, less well know) crypto can be used as a real currency, but unfortunately the public severely tainted it with ideas of 'being an asset'. This comment reads as someone who is more aligned with the public's (HN) perceptio…

I understand what you're trying to say, but I'm really curious about how you define "asset" to not include currency.
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