As a small business running like 30 Linode instances, this isn’t “hit the ejector seat button” stuff but it is absolutely “move up the schedule to check-in with all other cloud providers RE: pricing” stuff.
Linode increases price of compute plans and more
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#22Disappointed:( I am starting to hate when hosting related stuff gets acquired. For example I pay for a cPanel license, used to be $15 now it’s $40+ a month with tax. Kinda makes me think about just going back to shared hosting since not making any money from my server but it is fun to play with and having root if anything messes up.
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#23I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups.
Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
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#24Does this mean we can expect similar announcements from the other budget cloud providers (they all seem to be around the same price points) or is it time to jump?
The immediate implication would be to expect lesser price raises from other providers.
Akamai recently acquired Linode, and it was definitely perceived as a foreboding piece of news... and now here they go raising the prices.
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#25I've been a customer of Linode since about the time they were created. I've also been a customer of Akamai in the past. Based on my experience with Akamai I was expecting this to happen just was not sure when it would. My personal strategy to mitigate cost spikes is to have accounts with numerous VPS providers as that does not cost anything and to re-balance my nodes based on uptime, performance and cost. I found tha…
I would definitely read a blog write-up of any length on this, if you either already have or would be interested at all in making one.
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#26Does this mean we can expect similar announcements from the other budget cloud providers (they all seem to be around the same price points) or is it time to jump?
Other providers may follow along with the same kind of copycat behavior we've seen with layoffs and price increases in other markets, but it's hard to imagine that their costs have gone up 20%. Certainly their payroll hasn't.
There have been good reasons to flee Linode for a while now:
- Since their third or fifth or who-knows-which breach and subsequent fumble: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170 - Since the announcement that they were acquired by Akamai: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30352772 - Since they became "Akamai Cloud": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799273
Linode hasn't had a competitive advantage for at least a few years, and many would argue that their handling of repeated security incidents has made them a worse option than lots of competitors.
If you're still on Linode, do yourself a favor and make the time to find a new VPS provider.
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#27I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
Hetzner is pretty good.
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#28I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
> Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
My favorite hoster for years has been Vultr.com
Other alternatives would be UpCloud and DigitalOcean, I guess.
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#29Does this mean we can expect similar announcements from the other budget cloud providers (they all seem to be around the same price points) or is it time to jump?
Digital Ocean already increased its prices recently, then laid off a bunch of people. So the meager support it used to have is now gone.
Word on HN is that it's getting bought by Microsoft. If that's true it makes sense that DO would go away entirely.
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#30This news is shared as a banner within the Linode Manager interface with the following text: "Effective 04/01/2023 the price of compute services will change by decreasing transfer fees and updating shared and dedicated plan rates. Read more."
> prices will change by decreasing transfer fees and updating shared and dedicated plan rates
this is a stellar example of the dark pattern of passive user-hostile language.