5 ms·

Lol, what? DO was basically a page for page copy of linode's site and product offering in 2011-2013.

• disgrunt 6y ago
  They were both modeled after services like Slicehost I believe.
  • yte15 6y ago
    Negative. Slicehost launched in the middle of Linode pivoting virtualization stacks after proving out the business and running into limitations of their first stack (UML). Slicehost was ... 2006, if memory serves? Linode was a few years old by that point. For those keeping score, Linode then went to Xen and now KVM just like everyone else. Linode and Slicehost were very similar stories, though. Slicehost bootstrapped as well and was run by good people.
    • neom 6y ago
      You do know that Jason Seats, the founder of Slicehost, was pivotal in the DigitalOcean story also?
      • yte15 6y ago
        Yes. What’s your point?
• 1shooner 6y ago
  I remember at that time feeling almost bad for Linode because they had built up so much valuable educational content about what you could run on their services, and I was using it step-by-step on DO. The only differentiator was the price. Of course DO quickly replicated and excelled in providing that tutorial value as well.
  • kchr 6y ago
    But were they really doing anything other than copy/pasting HOWTOs by Falko Timme?