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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by slenk »

INTPenis wrote: post #34
tempnow987 wrote: post #20

I had a sour taste from what I remember being misleading communication around very serious control plane hacks of linode. A lot of bitcoin theft in 2012 (maybe by their own staff?) 2013 some kind of cold fusion / HTP hack Another CF / HTP hack here. 2014 brought the MySQL server no password stuff. 2015 ish some kind of total root compromise? You can get a feel for all this here including the denials / lack of notific…

I hate to say it but I recently moved away from Linode after their /64 block in Frankfurt was banned by all Google services. And even though all their kubernetes nodes have a public ipv4 address they were somehow unable to fallback on this when their ipv6 didn't work. And when I suggested this to their support they acted like I was crazy and said there is no way to switch between ipv4 and ipv6. Well I don't work in n…

I am trying to jump through hoops to move to hetzner as I can't get a clean /64 either.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by didip »

I have fond memories talking to Linode customer service when I was still a noob sysadmin.

They were extremely helpful and polite. I hope that all the employees get good kickbacks from the sale.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by slenk »

I will continue to give them a chance. They have proven in the past to be reliable and even though once, the hardware I was on was physically damaged and a lot of data lost, there support has been rock solid the whole time.

Man I suck at typing positive reviews. Happy customer since 2012-03-13

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by mmaunder »

freedomben wrote: post #156
mmaunder wrote: post #109

Congrats Linode. Been a user since they launched. Even the diehards (like me) have moved a lot to AWS and competitors. Lindode's biz feels stuck in the previous decade, and I think the $900MM purchase price reflects that. Hopefully the founders had a great exit and move on to create new amazing things! Best of luck to the Linode team.

Interesting, I disagree but appreciate your perspective. AWS and competitors are just getting way too expensive and they're focusing so much on higher-level products. Some people just need a VM and a DB, and don't want to have to higher an expert just to estimate how much it will cost every month and pray they don't have something go viral that uses up a bunch of egress data. I don't see bigger companies moving yet (…

Check out spot instances. An example of how much more competitive and rapidly scaleable aws and friends are vs the old model.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by xyzzy123 »

tomxor wrote: post #168
xyzzy123 wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even small accounts ( Amazon are huge so mistakes will be made but AWS's support reputation is not just hype. (My experiences were APAC region, can't speak for rest of world).

Interesting, my anecdotes come from other people IRL... Not sure why there is this inconsistency, perhaps it depends on the type of issue.

Yeah now that I think about it, it's going to be hard to generalise because experience will depend on the type of issues. Ok, here goes for me:

Limit increases: looked automated?, person might get involved if automation can't approve.

Stuff outside the control plane (e.g. how do I install nginx on this?): - no idea, never asked those questions, don't expect they'd hold your hand much unless you're spending a lot. Maybe they'll send you a link.

Something broken with AWS in general: usually not timely responses but path here is to use PHD (personal health dashboard).

Something broken with AWS in my account: occasionally stuff inside AWS gets "stuck". I've had issues with CloudFormation, CloudFront, Custom Domain Names and ACM certs - when I was creating / destroying these things lots of times in integration tests. I generally got timely response for these and eventually the issue stopped happening.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by Elof »

Elof wrote: post #8
benatkin wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like a massive acquihire to me - similar to Heroku. I don't think that DigitalOcean will be acquihired.

Definitely not an acquihire. Linode build a super solid business without taking any venture.

More info: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/akamai-tech-to-buy-linode-....

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by nbzso »

Oh, snap. I am a longtime Linode customer. Somehow I fell disturbed by this news. Is there a valuable alternative out there? Just in case something happens with pricing or other things. You know what I mean.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by christophilus »

azinman2 wrote: post #115

Lots of comments on how people now need to move off Linode, but I cannot imagine Akamai bought this to kill it off. It actually makes me happy as Akamai is a very professional company with a lot of networking talent. I hope they level up Linode while keeping the best parts.

I’m not optimistic, but will keep using Linode until proven otherwise. I can’t think of a single acquisition like this that has ever ended well (from a customer perspective). But there’s a first time for everything, and if anyone can do it it’s Linode.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ubermonkey »

freedomben wrote: post #123

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…

>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/VPS providers.

The press release is borderline offensive in its "nothing will change" babble. Obviously nothing will change TOMORROW, but within 24 to 36 months Akamai will have ruined every good thing about Linode.

It's nice the founders got a payday, but everyone who relies on Linode's current responsiveness should be looking for an alternative provider immediately. It's irrational to expect this will pan out any differently than every other time a massive leviathan absorbed a beloved small player.

>But that said, we are missing a lot of details.

There are no details that will change any of the above.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by [deleted] »

freedomben wrote: post #123

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…

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