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What’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.
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Same with Vultr if anyone still looking for options. Their new AMD power line is really worth looking into.
Beware of Vultr. The product works fine but the customer service is horrible. I had three days of downtime and they got sick of me asking for updates, ignored me, and didn't tell me when the service came back up. I switched back to DO and I'm fine with that again.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803696
That doesn't bother me as a customer. If the company is laying people off it's probably also getting more efficient and therefore cheaper.
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I was using a standalone niche host in the Uk called TSOHost who seemed quite good. They recently announced they were shutting down their cloud hosting and gave just 45 days notice to move sites. Funny part was that the way they gave their customers notice was flawed and most customers didn’t receive any email from them. I wish a sense of deflation was the only issue I’d had!
Oh wow, it was my first ever paid host back a few years ago. How come they've shut that down, what's their new business model now?
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This is what I've been worried about since the acquisition. I've been a loyal customer for over a decade and hosted jsonip.com there for 12 years. Now I seriously need to look for alternative hosting if/when the corpo overlords decide to start changing the offered products.
I've been with DigitalOcean for a very long time, their prices seem comparable to Linode, I always saw them marketed more or less the same. In fact, I don't even know why one would pick Linode over DigitalOcean or vice versa
Way too many bots and other automated stuff running on throwaway DO nodes.
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Slicehost (acquired by rackspace) pioneered this type of in depth how to guides for webhosting on linux. In fact many of the setup docs on DO seem oddly familiar…
If Linode on Akamai follows the Slicehost on Rackspace model, the product will only last 3 years or so.
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And people who "just" want a VPS are probably not Akamai's target market, so I think they're fine with the tradeoff.
Alienating existing customers is a terrible strategy
It should take few brain cells to understand business is driven by return on investment and not "most burgers served"
RIP Linode. It was the 2nd (after Slicehost) "cloud service" I was introduced to back then in 2009 I believe, when my, back then CTO, insisted that "cloud" is the way to go and some job skills (sysadmin) will eventually fade and turn irrelevant. 3 years later same CTO complained that I made other teams within that startup look bad by using Hetzner and OVH duo instead of Amazon's then still relatively new AWS - bills…
I'm sure they spent a lot of time thinking about this, but why not just call it something "Linode by Akamai" or "Akamai Linode"? Neither "Akamai’s cloud computing services" or "Akamai Connected Cloud" sound like viable names. Is the goal just to get people to say "I use Akamai"? I could even see a viable strategy where they rename the existing Linode but create a new Linode, ala Lightsail just to keep the name. They…
Precisely.