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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by schmichael »

I think Linode is the only ad I’ve ever clicked on the internet.

Around 2003 they were advertising via static banner ads on sourceforge.net, and I remember the offer being great for the time. Root in a “VM” (it was user mode Linux in those days) for something like $15/mo. I hung out in their IRC channel with caker and the early crew. I remember them talking about unboxing and racking servers and what their DCs were like. Can you imagine just casually chatting with someone who has intimate knowledge of your EC2 machine and its network?! It was a great time. I scored a free Xen VM when they were beta testing their transition and promptly had my first (and last so far!) experience getting a server hacked. Left it running with root ssh logins and a weak password. I migrated to other hosting services before the scandals hit I think. I’m glad to only have great memories and wish them all the best!

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by chaxor »

lbotos wrote: post #101
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…

Look, we are random internet people, and it's a "me vs. you" scenario, but as someone who worked at Linode in 2012, we were a small company, that all worked out of one office, with like 3 admins at the time. Yes, there were various hacks. Yes, there were silly vulns, but positing that one of the employees at that time stole bitcoin is something that I won't stand for. Could it have happened, sure. Do I think that it…

"I think money is insanely dumb, and I suspect most of us do ... So it's ok if someone steals money."

I think I get your sentiment(?), but I'm uncertain of whether or not it matters how individuals value 'success' or 'currency' when it comes to personal property. To extend to the logical consequences, I am not sure if people on HN would agree that personal property should be non-existent.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by stjohnswarts »

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…

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.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by stjohnswarts »

tomxor wrote: post #157
everfrustrated wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have had multi million dollar accounts with both Akamai and AWS. Akamai's support was woeful bordering on incompetent. AWS on the other had has been at a very high standard. And no robots.

> Akamai's support was woeful bordering on incompetent. Isn't that the point? Akamai's weakness and Linode's strength. I've no experience with Akamai at all so i'm interested in your's. However support quality and service quality are not always correlated, especially when support has been highly siloed or outsourced. Obviously they affect each other, but are you able to distinguish them? Would you be able to offer us…

Vs what we saw from Google cloud? AWS is top tier lol. Akamai I've no experience with at all and have heard mixed reviews.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by stjohnswarts »

ubermonkey wrote: post #182
iam-TJ wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quote from Chris Aker's Linode blog post [0]: "For the immediate future, we will continue to operate as we always have. Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful. This acquisition will propel us both forward — not take anything away. Linode will soon be able to call on the power of Akamai to offer entirely new products, services, expertise, locations, and scale, while Akamai will be able to tap…

That's just meaningless noise. Not even Aker probably believes this acquisition will go any differently than any other big-swallows-little deal. 1. In the short term, it's probably the same. 2. In the medium term, things start to get weird. 3. By the time Aker exits, Linode probably only exists as a brand. Everything special about it will be gone. Support will be offshore and terrible.

3) -> I call it the bean-counter syndrome; penny wise, pound foolish; quarterly curse.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by jjcm »

lukeqsee wrote: post #3

Really happy for Linode. I cannot say enough good things about the quality of their products and support. As a customer who's built significant value on their infrastructure, I'm a little bit worried about the impact this acquisition will have on their operations. I really hope it gives them the resources to improve on the same mission, and not the beginning of significant change!

Same. I'm definitely worried that they'll become more corporate as part of this, but at the same time a lot of those changes have already happened. When I first started using Linode, they had Rickrolls in their X-Mailer headers for all requests. It was honestly something that made me choose them in the first place - it felt like it was being made by people who would pay attention to those small things.

I've been super happy with their service over the decade I've been using them, but I've steadily been using Vultr more and more recently.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by 37ef_ced3 »

westwardly wrote: post #184
37ef_ced3 wrote: post #7

I 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.

For example, my https://NN-512.com is served by a Nanode in Linode's Fremont datacenter (45.56.92.68).

That same Nanode has been running the back-end of an Android app for almost 5 years, on another port.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by stjohnswarts »

nbzso wrote: post #177

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.

I'm with the other guy, a couple years max. In the meantime maybe digital ocean or vultr? I'm not sure how you're using linode but you might give those two a gander.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ludamad »

ipaddr wrote: post #97
Scoundreller wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A 2012 Bitcoin hack victim was none other than a lead developer of Bitcoin. Back then, they ran a Bitcoin faucet on it that gave out a paltry 0.25 Bitcoin at a time. I never bothered to jump through those hoops for like a dollar (now about US$10k): http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/03/bitcoin-faucet-hacked.... He only lost 5 bitcoin (like $20 then or $200k today), but another lost 3100, or around… $124 million today…

The one thing I don't understand is if that many coins were stolen and every transaction is traceable shouldn't there be a trail? The owner has 124 million reasons to find those coins. Is the ability to track past transactions not as possible as it seems?

You can track, but large amounts merge with small and disperse as they hit brokers etc. If your claim to someone is that their BTC is 0.01% stolen, it's not so strong. Faster you act, more you can do

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by riffic »

btgeekboy wrote: post #87
imachine1980_ wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this worry me, any similar compromise in digital ocean for example?

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.

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