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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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>I'm very disappointed at all the negativity here. Really? I'm not. Also, it's not "negativity." It's realism. When human-scale firms like Linode get acquired by massive companies, they lose their way. The things that made them good -- excellent support, understandable product lines, etc -- vanish in the name of integration with the mothership. It's happened over and over in tech, including and especially in hosting/…

> When human-scale firms like Linode get acquired by massive companies, they lose their way. Packet.net seems to be doing well under Equinix

Equinix isn't Akamai, I'd consider them human scale.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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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…

It may be okay, Redhat has been fine under IBM. I'm just pessimistic by nature, I'm not disappointed that often, and delightfully surprised sometimes, if infrequently. Just because you have a pessimistic outlook on life doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, I think it's more of a Buddhist (some forms anyway) way of expecting suffering and delighting in the joy of life nonetheless.

In that time, Red Hat has:

1. Killed the sole reason why people use CentOS. 2. Has so tightly integrated systemd and NetworkManager to Fedora that it's essentially unusable for server environments.

Sure, Red Hat has been fine.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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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.

DigitalOcean gives out /124 subnets, why would anyone use DO?

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Are you referring to the geoip issue ? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/28769 This was resolved and it didn’t appear something nefarious or any kind of ban was going on, so if you have some references I’d love to see them

I never said it was "nefarious", I'm saying it was badly handled and it brought down all services in an entire location for days, with no fallback to ipv4, no status communication from Linode. It's not malice, it's just incompetence. Why the block was banned I have no idea and I don't really care, it can happen and they need to be able to handle it. I literally had a support case asking what happened, no response, ev…

It seems to be a fault on Google's side, and not Linode's. It's like blaming the car when the road is closed down.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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I never said it was "nefarious", I'm saying it was badly handled and it brought down all services in an entire location for days, with no fallback to ipv4, no status communication from Linode. It's not malice, it's just incompetence. Why the block was banned I have no idea and I don't really care, it can happen and they need to be able to handle it. I literally had a support case asking what happened, no response, ev…

It seems to be a fault on Google's side, and not Linode's. It's like blaming the car when the road is closed down.

Yeah but again, no one is blaming anyone for the root cause here. Only for the handling.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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> When human-scale firms like Linode get acquired by massive companies, they lose their way. Packet.net seems to be doing well under Equinix

Equinix isn't Akamai, I'd consider them human scale.

Equinix market cap is 62B and 10000 employees

Akamai market cap is 18B and 8300 employees

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Not really a compromise but there was a point where they weren’t wiping block devices by default: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097 Not sure if that’s changed. (Hopefully it has!)

jeez, a lot has changed since 2013. DO's the only one out of the major VPS players to go public. It's not amateur hour over there anymore.

This was the same era that Linode had the compromises listed. It's a pretty apples-to-apples comparison, though I agree it has been almost a decade since.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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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 :)

I can give you a counter example. Previously I was a Linode customer - for nearly a decade up until the point I was not. My account was frozen, and when I called, I was told I was not [any longer] the account owner. I provided a billing statement -9- years old to validate that I was indeed the account holder, and always had been. The support rep had to talk to their manager, and asked me to call back(not wait on hold, or wait for them to call me). When I called back, I was told the situation is "very sensitive legally". Then they asked if I knew a first and last name combination that was not mine, because that name was now listed as the account owner. I said that I did indeed know this person, they were the C-level employee at a company I previously worked for. The C-level employee had contacted Linode and cowed them into believing they were the rightful owner of an account that existed before I ever worked for them. They gave the account to them, refused to give it back, and suggested I retain an attorney for any further movement on the issue.

If Linode is reading this - the incident took place over summer/fall of 2018. Yes, I'm that guy. No, I haven't forgotten. I've told _everyone_ who will listen this exact story, and warned them of having their own hard work and assets misappropriated by anyone with a fancy job title calling Linode support and demanding it. A phone call from Linode after everything was settled would have completely changed this sentiment. There's my own story of your outstanding lack of customer support. I was your biggest fan(for 9 years!) up until that point, and referred a dozen or more customers to your service.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Love Linode, been a customer for years. The only support ticket I had to file was because of a copy/paste error on my end and support helped me resolve it quickly and effortlessly. Great performance and cost. Was really a no brainer when AWS wouldn't stop billing me for a service I shut down and I couldn't get through to a human.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Hetzner is good but I’ve found that their connection from EU to US is weak, apparently in Level 3 somewhere.

Hetzner Cloud have recently launched a US location so this shouldn't be a problem.

Ashburn, its working fine. Extremely happy with their pricing. Their customer support can be a bit 'off'. Feels like "closing ticket" attitude. But hey, their pricing is 50% of competitors, so I can live with that.
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