Bad news. I have great experience with Linode, but had horrible experience with Akamai. Will need to change hosting soon, most likely.
Akamai to Acquire Linode
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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#282I 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.
Likewise with Hetzner. Great prices with decent support.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
What was very visible for me personally is that support people are very highly qualified, and can actually solve the problems themselves instead of escalating. So think of exposing higher qualified people to the front lines of support. Moreover, the feeling of speaking to a real person, who actually cares is something hyperscale cloud guys will never give you.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#284So, what are some decent alternatives?
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Second that, fond memories of using their service ages ago. First VMs I had was from them. They had very good documentation and everything was simple. Then I was introduced to 'wall of text' as a service, AWS, and never looked back.
Why move to AWS if you’re happy with Linode? Genuine question
Not OP, but I can answer - also was very happy with Linode for boxes, but there's a lot more than just boxes these days - queues, streaming, metrics, monitoring, containers, etc. Once an application moves from 'runs on a fixed number of boxes' to 'autoscaling, automatic healing/recovery and distributed databases', the overhead of DIY gets high (and I'm paid to do that!).
My clients pay a fairly high premium for AWS because it allows them to move _faster_, not that it's _cheaper_.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
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I'm trying to think of an Akamai acquisition that has worked out but coming up blank.
Prolexic (security), Blaze.io ("front-end" web app performance), SOASTA (web performance monitoring) - all integrated into Akamai flagship products & continuously improved. Disclaimer: Worked @ Akamai
Thanks, I hadn't heard of any of those but good to know they can be decent custodians.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#287I 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?
Yes
You can do most thing with configuration. EdgeWorkers are also available if you want to run your own JS at the Edge https://developer.akamai.com/akamai-edgeworkers-overview
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#288I 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.
They moved data centers (to Hurricane Electric Fremont 2). It's not unusually unreliable.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#289As usual, a company provided good service at low price, was people friendly, supported educational and open source uses and... got acquired by an old, high friction, bloated, expensive predatory monster.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
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Linode isn't used by Akamai customers and won't be. 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 contrac…
Do you have examples of companies “evolving from an enterprise product”? As far as I know companies usually evolve into an enterprise product, moving up the ladder, rather than going down. Yes, the sales cycles are longer, but there’s more money and less headache with customer support and customer success. E.g. 1 customer paying $10,000 per month vs 100 paying $99 p/m.
maybe this will help Akamai identify Linode customers who are evolving into potential Enterprise customers and hook them.