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This worries me. I've been a happy Linode customer for a while. I've mostly only noticed Akamai when they were screwing something up for one of their customers.

This worries me. I've been a happy Linode customer for a while. I've mostly only noticed Akamai when they were screwing something up for one of their customers. I try to be ready to migrate off of any service like this at the drop of a hat, but I suppose this is a good reminder to test my plans for getting off Linode, just in case.

freedomben 5y ago
Where are you gonna go if you leave Linode? Do you know yet? Digital Ocean is the most similar, but after getting burned hard by them I will never put myself in that vulnerable position again. I've been pretty happy with OVH thus far, but at least last time I checked the US presence was minimal and that's important to my customers.
- pbowyer 5y ago
  I've already moved most of my servers from Linode to UpCloud. I did this as the disk IO speed at UpCloud is insane and made some intensive apps measurably faster. The downside is price as UpCloud bundle less and charge for everything.
- christophilus 5y ago
  For me, it’d be Vultr.
- hoistbypetard 5y ago
  I currently have most of my stuff split between Digital Ocean and Linode. So if I had to move quickly, it'd be Digital Ocean. I'm going to be kicking the tires on Hetzner and Vultr soon, because DO is not a super satisfying backup plan for me. I've used Azure enough to get spun up quickly there, but that would be an unhappy upward adjustment on my budget or an unhappy downward adjustment on the performance I expect.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    Hetzner is good but I’ve found that their connection from EU to US is weak, apparently in Level 3 somewhere.
    - jgillich 5y ago
      Hetzner Cloud have recently launched a US location so this shouldn't be a problem.
      - roguas 5y ago
        Ashburn, its working fine. Extremely happy with their pricing. Their customer support can be a bit 'off'. Feels like "closing ticket" attitude. But hey, their pricing is 50% of competitors, so I can live with that.
- voiper1 5y ago
  The difference that sticks with me is this: Linode: "We're really sorry, there's a kernel bug and we absolutely have to patch it. See here for the CVE. We're scheduling it for time X but you can do it in advance on the web panel at a better time for you." Digital Ocean: "Isn't it great? We're rebooting your machine at time X and you'll get new better stuff! No, there's no way to change the time or delay it."
- maccolgan 5y ago
  DigitalOcean gives out /124 subnets, why would anyone use DO?
lilyball 5y ago
> I've mostly only noticed Akamai when they were screwing something up for one of their customers Normally their service is pretty invisible to the end user so it would be weird if you noticed them when things were working fine.
frenchtoasters 5y ago
You might look to move your deployments to Kubernetes, once you get past the learning curve. Its by far the easiest way to remain "cloud agnostic" in todays age.

freedomben 5y ago

Where are you gonna go if you leave Linode? Do you know yet? Digital Ocean is the most similar, but after getting burned hard by them I will never put myself in that vulnerable position again. I've been pretty happy with OVH thus far, but at least last time I checked the US presence was minimal and that's important to my customers.

pbowyer 5y ago
I've already moved most of my servers from Linode to UpCloud. I did this as the disk IO speed at UpCloud is insane and made some intensive apps measurably faster. The downside is price as UpCloud bundle less and charge for everything.
christophilus 5y ago
For me, it’d be Vultr.
hoistbypetard 5y ago
I currently have most of my stuff split between Digital Ocean and Linode. So if I had to move quickly, it'd be Digital Ocean. I'm going to be kicking the tires on Hetzner and Vultr soon, because DO is not a super satisfying backup plan for me. I've used Azure enough to get spun up quickly there, but that would be an unhappy upward adjustment on my budget or an unhappy downward adjustment on the performance I expect.
- bombcar 5y ago
  Hetzner is good but I’ve found that their connection from EU to US is weak, apparently in Level 3 somewhere.
  - jgillich 5y ago
    Hetzner Cloud have recently launched a US location so this shouldn't be a problem.
    - roguas 5y ago
      Ashburn, its working fine. Extremely happy with their pricing. Their customer support can be a bit 'off'. Feels like "closing ticket" attitude. But hey, their pricing is 50% of competitors, so I can live with that.
voiper1 5y ago
The difference that sticks with me is this: Linode: "We're really sorry, there's a kernel bug and we absolutely have to patch it. See here for the CVE. We're scheduling it for time X but you can do it in advance on the web panel at a better time for you." Digital Ocean: "Isn't it great? We're rebooting your machine at time X and you'll get new better stuff! No, there's no way to change the time or delay it."
maccolgan 5y ago
DigitalOcean gives out /124 subnets, why would anyone use DO?

lilyball 5y ago

> I've mostly only noticed Akamai when they were screwing something up for one of their customers Normally their service is pretty invisible to the end user so it would be weird if you noticed them when things were working fine.

frenchtoasters 5y ago

You might look to move your deployments to Kubernetes, once you get past the learning curve. Its by far the easiest way to remain "cloud agnostic" in todays age.