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Off topic: any updates on Linode's Bare Metal service? It's been 2-years since it's been announced as "Coming Soon" and I haven't seen any updates. https://web.archive.org/web/20201116142627/https://www.linod...
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The Akamai acquisition has had me kind of stressed to be honest. Here in Oceania there aren't a whole lot of established "cloud" hosts to pick from that host locally. Linode is fantastic and I have loved them for 10+ years. Digital Ocean doesn't host here, nearest is Singapore. Vultr does but I have had poor experiences with them. The other options are AWS and Google which are potentially unbounded expenses which is…
Unrelated to the Linode thing, but in 15 years building and selling SaaS products, I've encountered a number of customers who nitpick prices or try to haggle. I'm not talking about non-profits with micro budgets, rather very profitable businesses. Nowadays, whenever someone goes there, I just change my usual lighthearted tone to a serious one and say "Yeah, our prices are firm, if that's outside of your budget it's b…
When it works, it works.
When it fails, it didn't work, but the next step is not "Quit" but "Continue".
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These guys are in Australia amongst other locations: https://www.ovhcloud.com/
A caveat with them is that they're really trying to be price competitive, and can sometimes go overboard (like design their own custom datacenters and servers with watercooling, and skipping some things like fire suppression systems, and using cheap material such as plywood). Having a backup with a different provider, somewhere else, is always a good idea.
Possibly too clever.
FYI: Linode says that most people can fix this by enabling "Network Helper." You'll then likely need to reboot your server. It worked for me! https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/network-helper/#individua...
In almost 20 years with Linode, I've had nearly zero problems. Akamai buys them, and within months we have an outage. Not encouraging... On the other hand, it's only hitting my personal website, and the customer I have on Linode seems unaffected, so that's nice at least.
In almost 20 years with Linode, I've had nearly zero problems. Akamai buys them, and within months we have an outage. Not encouraging... On the other hand, it's only hitting my personal website, and the customer I have on Linode seems unaffected, so that's nice at least.
They were just bought by Akamai so unfortunately things like this are bound to happen if they are trying to integrate with Akamai the way they'd need to successfully keep growing. I'm not talking just software integration but process and people integration as well. We'll see I guess!
I'm absolutely certain Akamai will fuck Linode up, same as Rackspace ruined Slicehost -- which is what sent me to Linode in the first place. I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.
Unlike when Rackspace bought Slicehost, Linode probably isn't even the leader in its niche. That's probably DigitalOcean. Akamai probably figured out which of the two it could buy and DigitalOcean probably would have cost $4+ billion while Linode only cost $900 million. When Rackspace bought Slicehost, there were really two alternatives: Linode and AWS. AWS came with a lot of complexity and Linode was small.
If you're looking for a new Linode to pop up, you don't have to wait. Vultr, DigitalOcean, and tons more already exist and have for years. It's not 2010 where you don't have loads of options in this space. Go with Hetzner or OVH Cloud and get really cheap prices (I've found Hetzner Cloud to be really nice). There are so many places that will give you a VPS today. Heck, AWS will give you a Linode-like experience with Lightsail, right?
That's why I think Akamai wants to use Linode as a way to build something that will let them start getting into the AWS/GCP/Azure space. It's somewhat where Linode was already heading, albeit slowly. Linode started offering hosted Kubernetes, object storage, block storage, hosted databases, and load balancers. How long before they might have added a queuing system, an app-runner so you don't even need to think about boxes/load balancers, etc.
For the low price of $900M, they could jump-start that process at Akamai. Rackspace thought that the future was their high-touch, high-cost, managed services. Akamai probably wants to use Linode to get into the AWS space and with a separate brand, they can do it without as much risk to their mainline business. There are too many alternatives for Akamai to be deluded enough to think they can just ruin Linode and not like that $900M on fire. That wasn't the case when Rackspace bought Slicehost.
Generally I've been very happy with Linode over several years.
In almost 20 years with Linode, I've had nearly zero problems. Akamai buys them, and within months we have an outage. Not encouraging... On the other hand, it's only hitting my personal website, and the customer I have on Linode seems unaffected, so that's nice at least.
I moved off Linode 5 years ago due to outages and issues. I don't have any experience post-akamai to compare but it was definitely never a reliable service for me in the past.