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Perhaps you like problems? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins

Perhaps you like problems? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655137 Linode Manager Security Incident (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756 Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked (2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086921 An old system and a SWAT team (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10825425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10825425 Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998661 The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170 Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806686 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806686 Linode is suffering on-going DDoS attacks (2016) > why would I want to use Linode over GCP or AWS? If you include dedi providers like OVH into this comparison, you probably just wouldn’t.

mwcampbell 7y ago
Nobody's perfect, and Linode clearly had growing pains. Can you point to anything in the past four years? If not, I'd give them another chance.
- eropple 7y ago
  Why would you “give a chance” to a commodity provider that had no differentiation but does have a bad history? They’re not really cheaper, their hardware isn’t better, and they’ve shown a willingness to toss security out the window. Doesn’t strike me as deserving of “a chance”.
  - mwcampbell 7y ago
    Because they're a small, bootstrapped company in a tough industry, and I figure I should treat them the way I'd want to be treated?
    - eropple 7y ago
      I get that, but there's such a thing as being so open-minded your brain falls out.
EugeneOZ 7y ago
Comparison with dedicated servers is comparing apples to oranges, but except that line your comment has a pretty strong point.
- ryanlol 7y ago
  Is it though? There are some very specific use cases where dedicated servers won’t work, but those are certainly a small minority of Linode customers. Stuff like Terraform works just fine with OVH dedicated servers, so that can’t be the problem either.

mwcampbell 7y ago

Nobody's perfect, and Linode clearly had growing pains. Can you point to anything in the past four years? If not, I'd give them another chance.

eropple 7y ago
Why would you “give a chance” to a commodity provider that had no differentiation but does have a bad history? They’re not really cheaper, their hardware isn’t better, and they’ve shown a willingness to toss security out the window. Doesn’t strike me as deserving of “a chance”.
- mwcampbell 7y ago
  Because they're a small, bootstrapped company in a tough industry, and I figure I should treat them the way I'd want to be treated?
  - eropple 7y ago
    I get that, but there's such a thing as being so open-minded your brain falls out.

EugeneOZ 7y ago

Comparison with dedicated servers is comparing apples to oranges, but except that line your comment has a pretty strong point.

ryanlol 7y ago
Is it though? There are some very specific use cases where dedicated servers won’t work, but those are certainly a small minority of Linode customers. Stuff like Terraform works just fine with OVH dedicated servers, so that can’t be the problem either.