I think the only reason that I browsed this is that Linode hosts a mattermost instance of mine, I'm happy with them, and I don't want anything to change.
Akamai to Acquire Linode
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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like a massive acquihire to me - similar to Heroku. I don't think that DigitalOcean will be acquihired.
18 years is a long time to run a business, I believe Linode hasn’t had much outside investment. I suspect the founding team are looking to exit and will slowly pull back over the next couple of years.
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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#33Love Linode, unfortunately had to migrate away to DO because K8S and managed Postgres.
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#34I 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 networking but I do work for a major telco and I know our networking guys could have done that routing change, easy.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#35After dealing with Akamai at a past role I can only offer my condolences to Linode customers.
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#36Enjoy the value of Linode. Hope Akamai doesn't ruin it.
Same thoughts here, I've emigrated mostly to Linode, now a search begins to a decent small contender.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#37And thus was born a new entrant into the large public cloud space. Congrats Linode! I'm guessing Digital Ocean will be next.
Less chance b/c DO is public now!
Yeah, it would be quite an acquihire, and I am already stretching the definition by including Heroku!
A true acquisition still is a strong possibility, but certainly far less likely than before the IPO, and it might be described as a merger.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they answer the phone. I've called their support line many times to report business-impacting issues, and they always answer within seconds (literally), provide competent support, follow-up, and genuinely care . Linode support may be better than Amex Platinum Card support. :-)
> Linode support may be better than Amex Platinum Card support. If talking about today, almost assuredly given your description. This is pretty offtopic to the OP but I felt compelled to chime in as it really irritates me, that Amex support has gone into the toilet over the past 2 years or so. I remember a time when you called, and someone would just answer "hello mr xxx" if it was the number on file. Now it's phone…
Huh…I haven’t had a Platinum Card for a few years (some other cards provided better value), but that’s disappointing.
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#39I 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…
Are you referring to the geoip issue ? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/28769
This was resolved and it didn’t appear something nefarious or any kind of ban was going on, so if you have some references I’d love to see them
Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode
#40Linode is a fairly underrated provider. Getting acquired will hopefully bring them more visibility.
For Akamai, I wonder if this acquisition will have a negative impact on their ability to work with other providers who are now competitors. Similar to how AWS has trouble signing clients in the retail industry.