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Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by aliqot »

thrashh wrote: post #106
jay-barronville wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t tell you why you haven’t heard of Linode much, but yes, the Linode brand absolutely is well known. When I think Linode, I think developer, small consultancy, etc. When I think Akamai, I think enterprise. Completely different brands. It just seems like such a bizarre business decision to me for Akamai to throw a strong brand like that away just because they want to slap their name on the product instead. All i…

Linode was maybe well known 5-10 years ago but I haven’t heard that name spoken in a long time Linode hasn’t put themselves out there like other companies. For example, Digital Ocean has all those tutorials that show up in results. Vercel is linked to a hit framework (Next.js). Heroku was a darling linked to Ruby’s community and rode a wave of popularity. Linode just has… existed for people specifically looking for v…

It may be different for other sectors but it seemed like they sponsored every episode of Changelog podcast for quite some time. At the very least they must have sponsored every episode I listened to.

Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by onphonenow »

arp242 wrote: post #35
onphonenow wrote: post #8

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Not sure it was trusted - I think they had root level control plane breaches in their stack?

That was over ten years ago. AFAIK there's never been a pattern of problems.

My memory was there were multiple and at least one badly handled - but it’s been awhile

Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by tomxor »

antoineMoPa wrote: post #125

I wonder how employees feel about that change and how they feel since the acquisition. A key determinant in whether I stay with Akamai or not is if I know there are competent developers behind the cloud that care and would use the service. Other determinants: simplicity, performance in the UI and pricing that makes sense for an individual developer. It feels like Linode was small enough to care, which was a key diffe…

> Other determinants: simplicity, performance in the UI and pricing that makes sense for an individual developer.

This is my main fear: morphing into some AWSgoogleCloudflare behemoth with a bazillion knobs and complex unpredictable pricing plans. I choose Linode specifically to avoid that time sink. Thankfully there are other's that are supposed to be similar to Linode in this respect, but I've grown to like Linode over the years, and their UI has become pretty refined, but that may be subjective.

Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by jb1991 »

twblalock wrote: post #46
jay-barronville wrote: post #31

The Linode brand is so well known by developers. Why in the world would Akamai risk the brand any further than they already have like this?

Is it really well known? I've only ever heard of Linode because they sponsored some Youtube videos. I've never heard it mentioned in a professional setting as a developer. On the contrary, Akamai is incredibly well known.

For me, it’s the opposite. Strangely, I’ve never heard of Akamai until this post, but I’ve known about Linode for years.

Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by Illniyar »

jay-barronville wrote: post #31

The Linode brand is so well known by developers. Why in the world would Akamai risk the brand any further than they already have like this?

Because the Akami brand is known to executives, and those are the people buying the product?

Linode is a good service among a lot of equally good competitors (digitalOcean, ec2/lightsail, ovh, hetzner, vulter) in the space, but it's not as much a house name as Heroku or Github - it's not a trailbrazer, the cheapest, the most advanced or the first of it's kind. It's a good solid choice among other solid choices.

On the other hand Akami is, in many circles, known as the best (as a CDN at least - it is regarded by many as the most expansive, most stable and most feature rich), it is recognized by many as first (as a cdn) and is very much a house name.

Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by asim »

Sad day for Linode. Great standalone niche hosting platform. I get that these things happen. I was part of a Google acquisition that eventually got shutdown/rebranded. From an acquirer standpoint it makes sense. For existing users they probably now feel deflated as the whole reason they went to Linode was to avoid incumbents.

Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by jolmg »

radium3d wrote: post #140
twblalock wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really well known? I've only ever heard of Linode because they sponsored some Youtube videos. I've never heard it mentioned in a professional setting as a developer. On the contrary, Akamai is incredibly well known.

I have been using a Linode VPS for years. I never talk about it because it always just works. Perhaps that's why? I had never heard of Akamai before they took over Linode. There are bubbles around the world we've never entered. I do hope they continue to upgrade my server for free very couple years just like Linode has always done. If they don't, then we know Linode's true innovation is dead and I may move on.

> I never talk about it because it always just works. Perhaps that's why?

They've been very reliable for me, too. I can't say anything bad about them.

Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

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Post by smaudet »

echelon wrote: post #84
jay-barronville wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can’t tell you why you haven’t heard of Linode much, but yes, the Linode brand absolutely is well known. When I think Linode, I think developer, small consultancy, etc. When I think Akamai, I think enterprise. Completely different brands. It just seems like such a bizarre business decision to me for Akamai to throw a strong brand like that away just because they want to slap their name on the product instead. All i…

They're not the only ones. I consider myself up to date, and I had no idea Linode was in the VPS business. If I had to guess their mission, it sounds like Tailscale. [1] I've used Digital Ocean and all the big cloud providers. Vercel, Netlify, Heroku. Haven't touched Akamai, but I certainly know of it. [1] https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

You are probably too young to remember the php Cpanel hosts then.

Linode was one of the big names in being cheap and having an actual vps where you could do whatever. Short of actually buying a rack and the accompanying hardware/networking software (not renting and having your electric/network subsidized) having a vps is the cheapest slickest option to do whatever, part of why I have never bothered with any of the Iaas options. At least AWS blows hard-core in comparison, a lot of the alternatives focus on optimizing some use case, not doing whatever the hell you want.

I'm not sure how you would even compare tailscale, that's focused more on connecting all your boxes e.g. on linode...

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