Linode holds a special place in my experience. I switched to DigitalOcean for better sbapshotting and even cheaper cheap vps'es, but I only have very good memories of Linode.
Akamai to Acquire Linode
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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#272This 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.
I've already moved most of my servers from Linode to UpCloud. I did this as the disk IO speed at UpCloud is insane and made some intensive apps measurably faster.
The downside is price as UpCloud bundle less and charge for everything.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#273I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
Akamai has edge workers?
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#274This 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.
The difference that sticks with me is this:
Linode: "We're really sorry, there's a kernel bug and we absolutely have to patch it. See here for the CVE. We're scheduling it for time X but you can do it in advance on the web panel at a better time for you."
Digital Ocean: "Isn't it great? We're rebooting your machine at time X and you'll get new better stuff! No, there's no way to change the time or delay it."
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#275I 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…
I've used Linode for 10+ years with a handful of long running projects. Support in the rare occasion (until 1 slow ticket recently) has always been absolutely amazing - real humans. If Josh is reading this your name has come up on a few tickets and answered promptly. A grade! Services have been solid. And pricing has been very reasonable. (knock on wood...) never ever had a significant outage and just don't think abo…
What makes support absolutely amazing and A grade? Wanna compare how our support compares :)
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may have convinced me to move over to Vultr.
That doesn't include a ip4 address and you can't point a domain to it. I have two grandfathered 2.50 packages with an ip (no domain pointing).. no issues ever but it's a playground not a production box for me.
If all you need is web traffic, I've seen some use Cloudflare's proxy, which does support ipv6 as the origin.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#277I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
Worked with Akamai in a company I was working with. That company is so rooted into the 90s that the Spice Girls look fresh and modern. :P
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#278I 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…
We've moved to AWS since, but we started our early cloud infra on Linode and was always so impressed by their customer support. Genuine good quality. Let's hope it keeps going well.
Out of curiosity, why did you move to AWS?
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#279I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
Akamai has edge workers?
They have had "edge workers" in some form or another for 20 years. Most of the common use cases for things you'd want to do at the edge could be done in their config programming language. Now they have VMs/containers in 15k+ locations.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#280I think this is Akamai figuring out they need to address the self-serve market. Akamai has 6x the edge network footprint of Cloudflare and has all the cool trendy stuff like edge workers, they just suck at selling to the developer.
Have they gotten faster at applying updates? it would take something like 45 minutes to an hour to make any changes back in 2014, when Fastly was doing sub-minute updates for any CDN changes.
Production network activation takes about 10 mins. Staging network activation around 3 mins.