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?
Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
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Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
#32RIP Linode. First VPS provider I used. Although I haven't used it in a while, it's still sad to see the brand go away and be replaced with such a bland corporate one.
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"Akamai Connected Cloud" is practically peak corporate brand. The only thing it's missing is "Powered by Akamai"
The co-founder's fate doesn't exactly change Akamai's brand in my opinion, either. They've built themselves up as the Enterprise CDN which is the exact antithesis to the brand Linode cultivated.
Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
#33RIP Linode. First VPS provider I used. Although I haven't used it in a while, it's still sad to see the brand go away and be replaced with such a bland corporate one.
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That was 22 years ago.
Plenty of time to establish a bland corporate brand, Google seems to be doing it just fine.
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#34Akamai must be feeling the pressure from Cloudflare.
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#36What’s a good alternative for Linode these days? I just want a vps where I can install Debian, be root, and have a web and email server. A 4gb Linode has been enough for my needs for years.
Just signup for the free Oracle cloud
Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
#37RIP Linode. First VPS provider I used. Although I haven't used it in a while, it's still sad to see the brand go away and be replaced with such a bland corporate one.
Same! It is still the only ad conversion I’ve ever been: I saw their ad on sourceforge.net, clicked, and bought a VPS. That was probably 20 years ago, and I can’t think of another time I’ve clicked an ad and bought anything.
Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
#38RIP Linode. First VPS provider I used. Although I haven't used it in a while, it's still sad to see the brand go away and be replaced with such a bland corporate one.
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The experience with them is very enterprisey and a few years ago very manual. When CloudFlare went all in on API management, Akamai required changing many things in the web panel. Their official terraform module only started in 2020!
Their preferred onboarding is still extremely "talk to an expert" and "contact sales". I can't find a pricing page for their CDN.
I'm not criticising their tech itself, but as far as brands go, they present as the extremely bland B2B, stay away if you're not a corp. (Also, they do airport adverts...)
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#39Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
#40Ask HN: I was just about to sign up to their Managed service offering (basically they monitor the VPS's and if a monitored URL goes down they do initial trouble shooting for the basics to bring things back online before they contact you). I've rarely seen this offered elsewhere. Any other hosting co's HN knows about that does this (and had good experiences with?) ? Vultr doesn't from what I can see. I prefer my serve…
Rack space (used?) to offer something like this and it was somewhat worthwhile if what you were doing was bog-standard. I found that if you were even a bit off the beaten path they didn’t do much more than reboot and check if the disks had filled up.
Yeah I remember from back in the day. The Linode offering (assuming it works) gives some degree of confidence if a key person or two are out of action, you still can get back online if it's something not app related. And it's almost always the stupid stuff or an Apache reboot to get back online. For the money is worth that initial peace of mind.
In that awkward in-between phase of starting to grow and not quite there yet for another set of back-end hands :)