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Surprised, they didn't rebrand to Microhub.
GitSoft would be better but maybe give people the wrong idea.
That sounds like a turn off!
Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
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Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
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Is it really well known? I've only ever heard of Linode because they sponsored some Youtube videos. I've never heard it mentioned in a professional setting as a developer. On the contrary, Akamai is incredibly well known.
I can’t tell you why you haven’t heard of Linode much, but yes, the Linode brand absolutely is well known. When I think Linode, I think developer, small consultancy, etc. When I think Akamai, I think enterprise. Completely different brands. It just seems like such a bizarre business decision to me for Akamai to throw a strong brand like that away just because they want to slap their name on the product instead. All i…
I certainly have heard about Linode but all historically — probably a decade since that was mentioned as something someone was switching _to_. I think Akamai is looking at the future and figuring that any substantial growth is going to come from directions where their CDN reputation carries more weight.
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Because they don't want to sell it to anyone who has ever heard of Linode. They are going to sell through their existing corporate sales contacts, as a new cloud compute offering by your pals at Akamai.
Does it mean that people who use Linode for Linode should be preparing to move out?
A client of mine has used Linode for several years, increasing from 2 low end VMs when I first started with them, to the current 8 machines (well technically it's 13 right now but the 5 extras are because of their network migration breaking stuff and us needing to setup new VMs)
Not completely because of, but definitely somewhat because of the buyout, my client has agreed they should diversify and we're going to adapt it from a fault-tolerant single location (i.e. right now there are no SPOFs for them except the DC itself going dark), to three independent locations, with less fault tolerance per DC, but greater overall resilience.
One location will probably stay with Linode, but the other two definitely won't be Linode (they'll almost certainly each be a different vendor).
The benefit for us is that adopting multiple (individually) lower-resilience locations means we can be less picky about the host for a given location, because we're not using as many "advanced" features at each location, due to the vastly reduced complexity at the individual DCs.
Vultr and Digital Ocean *seem* like the obvious "Linode type services but not Linode" vendors, but neither seem to have a fantastic reputation from what I've seen.
OVH and Hetzner seem like two alternatives that may be worth checking out more, but they both seem to have an almost-intentionally complex service offering list, and it's hard to tell if some fairly basic things are available with plain VPS services (e.g. private IP addresses).
Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
#334Akamai to me sounds expensive. Not sure if it's a good idea
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At MNX, we manage your infrastructure at your existing provider or ours (mnx.io) and provide 24x7 monitoring and response. Our customers usually have 10+ servers, and pricing starts at ~$2500/month.
Thanks for the response. A bit too spendy for an early stage (bootstrapped!) product. For comparison Linode charges $100USD/month per VPS.
It does look to be a good price/value.. though I wonder if they continue with that under Akamai. We're at the $250/server price point -- and we include a number of items:
- Realtime kernel/lib patching.
- Patch management.
- 24x7 monitoring and response.
- Metric collections, alerting, and health reviews.
- Tuning and infrastructure best practices wherever you are (AWS/GCP/Azure/mnx/colo).
- Ad-hoc support - example this week -- one customer who runs large ecommerce valentine day related -- needed eyes on all infrastructure. We sat in slack with them, and huddled realtime to work through any issues.Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
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Possibly more people know Akamai?
Depends on which people. More developers know Linode. But more business people have seen Akamai adverts at the airports.
I would bet that all developers sort of know Akamai as a CDN ( the one that small companies cannot afford )
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You won't get many movers with 2x the price of L:inode for comparable instances...
I do understand.. and sometimes cheap is what you want. When you want something else -- like customer service, this is where mnx.io shines. I would consider mnx.io to be a boutique cloud provider, prioritize quality/reliability and customer service, allowing us to build close relationships with our customers. As a boutique provider, we know most of our customers by name and focus on providing the resources necessary…
Well I don't know much about Linode customer service because it all worked fine for 14 years... only thing I got is "your node is going to be migrated in X days, or press this key to migrate it now" few times when they were upgrading for new hardware.
The one single issue I had 10 years ago was fixed within minutes of opening ticket too. So you're basically trying to advertise to a bunch of customers happy with service that's also cheaper than your service and offers more options (hosted databases, object store, DNS hosting)
Re: Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
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It sure looks like it. I thought that the moment they got bought. Same thing happened with Slicehost. They got absorbed by the Rackspace borg, which ruined everything we found appealing at SH -- so we found Linode. I guess now I'm looking for the new Linode/Slicehost style provider. Sucks.
Is anything wrong with digital ocean? This name change has me wanting to jump ship as well.
Anecdotally, people seem to have more "human" support experiences with Linode than with Digital Ocean.
Besides that, it looks like people like DO.
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It doesn't make any sense from this vantage point. Akamai thinks they can sell me Linode at enterprise prices? LOL, that's not happening.
No, Akamai wants to sell enterprise users at enterprise prices. They would prefer you stop using them if it's anything less. If anyone has tried to use Akamai for anything without an impressive budget behind them I imagine they can confirm this theory.
CDN is just a fancy name for web hosting and you can use Akamai through Azure CDN anytime you want. I worked on the Edgecast/Verizon CDN, it's just DNS and web servers all the way down but with more expensive buzzwords.
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It sure looks like it. I thought that the moment they got bought. Same thing happened with Slicehost. They got absorbed by the Rackspace borg, which ruined everything we found appealing at SH -- so we found Linode. I guess now I'm looking for the new Linode/Slicehost style provider. Sucks.
I've been pretty happy with Vultr.
I'll third this recommendation as well. I find them slightly easier to use than DO, and they have free transit to Cloudflare and Backblaze B2.