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RIP Linode. First VPS provider I used. Although I haven't used it in a while, it's still sad to see the brand go away and be replaced with such a bland corpor

RIP Linode. First VPS provider I used. Although I haven't used it in a while, it's still sad to see the brand go away and be replaced with such a bland corporate one.

schmichael 4y ago
Same! It is still the only ad conversion I’ve ever been: I saw their ad on sourceforge.net, clicked, and bought a VPS. That was probably 20 years ago, and I can’t think of another time I’ve clicked an ad and bought anything.
dragontamer 4y ago
Linode was my second VPS provider. My first was Slicehost. I remember the big Slicehost vs Linode wars.
godzillabrennus 4y ago
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- mynameisvlad 4y ago
  "Akamai Connected Cloud" is practically peak corporate brand. The only thing it's missing is "Powered by Akamai" The co-founder's fate doesn't exactly change Akamai's brand in my opinion, either. They've built themselves up as the Enterprise CDN which is the exact antithesis to the brand Linode cultivated.
  - dangus 4y ago
    I'll literally forget how to get there and login with a name like that.
    - ta988 4y ago
      I just hope you turned those servers off.
  - badcarbine 4y ago
    But it’s fun to say. Makes me feel like a samurai
- tempest_ 4y ago
  That was 22 years ago. Plenty of time to establish a bland corporate brand, Google seems to be doing it just fine.
- viraptor 4y ago
  The experience with them is very enterprisey and a few years ago very manual. When CloudFlare went all in on API management, Akamai required changing many things in the web panel. Their official terraform module only started in 2020! Their preferred onboarding is still extremely "talk to an expert" and "contact sales". I can't find a pricing page for their CDN. I'm not criticising their tech itself, but as far as brands go, they present as the extremely bland B2B, stay away if you're not a corp. (Also, they do airport adverts...)
  - mynameisvlad 4y ago
    This is exactly what I meant by a bland corporate brand. Their tech stack might be great, but their entire look and feel is "old school corporate you need to talk to sales and if you need to ask how much you can't afford it" vs Linode's "developer first, here's all the info you need go ahead and sign up" approach.
    - jeremyjh 4y ago
      Oh and the salesperson is going to look up your company info before deciding if they'll even call you back to give you a quote.
  - WirelessGigabit 4y ago
    Are you my colleague? I don't understand why part of our teams chose Akamai. The other ones who use Cloudflare just do API calls when they deploy. The Akamai team needs to send an email, then 2 meetings going back and forth, staging, approval, and then go-live.
    - bushbaba 4y ago
      Because Akamai still has better performance and price point than cloudflare.
- diveandfight 4y ago
  The fact that the founders named the company based off a Hawaiian-English dictionary look-up strikes me as pretty bland-corporate, "The company was named after akamai, which means 'clever,' or more colloquially, 'cool' in Hawaiian, which Lewin had discovered in a Hawaiian-English dictionary after the suggestion of a colleague." [0] From what I've seen living here and hearing Hawaiian Creole English (aka pidgin), nobody uses akamai to refer to something that is cool... Always used in the smart/clever context. But then again, I wouldn't expect the founders to know that if they didn't have knowledge of local Hawaii culture. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#History
  - hparadiz 4y ago
    Look up Aegis and see how many companies use the Greek word for shield. Sometimes a name is the last thing you actually want to be dealing with when starting a company.
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- 1123581321 4y ago
  Wow, I didn't realize that was him. He was on Flight 11 (struck North Tower) and his throat was cut. It's thought that he may have been trying to interfere with the initial disturbance as he had a combat background with the IDF.
- recuter 4y ago
  He wasn't just killed, he was the first and possibly only person on AA11 to try and fight them off. Man went down swinging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin
- bushbaba 4y ago
  Not just killed in the 9-11 attacks. But a brave, courageous person who stood up against the terrorists on the flight.
guluarte 4y ago
RIP, it sounds so generic like IBM/Oracle cloud service
qbasic_forever 4y ago
I remember using them when I first started getting into Linux. Lots of good memories getting Debian to work on my Thinkpad X40 and marveling at having a cheap shell account online all the time from Linode. It felt like the future.

RIP Linode. First VPS provider I used. Although I haven't used it in a while, it's still sad to see the brand go away and be replaced with such a bland corporate one.

schmichael 4y ago

Same! It is still the only ad conversion I’ve ever been: I saw their ad on sourceforge.net, clicked, and bought a VPS. That was probably 20 years ago, and I can’t think of another time I’ve clicked an ad and bought anything.

dragontamer 4y ago

Linode was my second VPS provider. My first was Slicehost. I remember the big Slicehost vs Linode wars.

godzillabrennus 4y ago

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mynameisvlad 4y ago
"Akamai Connected Cloud" is practically peak corporate brand. The only thing it's missing is "Powered by Akamai" The co-founder's fate doesn't exactly change Akamai's brand in my opinion, either. They've built themselves up as the Enterprise CDN which is the exact antithesis to the brand Linode cultivated.
- dangus 4y ago
  I'll literally forget how to get there and login with a name like that.
  - ta988 4y ago
    I just hope you turned those servers off.
- badcarbine 4y ago
  But it’s fun to say. Makes me feel like a samurai
tempest_ 4y ago
That was 22 years ago. Plenty of time to establish a bland corporate brand, Google seems to be doing it just fine.
viraptor 4y ago
The experience with them is very enterprisey and a few years ago very manual. When CloudFlare went all in on API management, Akamai required changing many things in the web panel. Their official terraform module only started in 2020! Their preferred onboarding is still extremely "talk to an expert" and "contact sales". I can't find a pricing page for their CDN. I'm not criticising their tech itself, but as far as brands go, they present as the extremely bland B2B, stay away if you're not a corp. (Also, they do airport adverts...)
- mynameisvlad 4y ago
  This is exactly what I meant by a bland corporate brand. Their tech stack might be great, but their entire look and feel is "old school corporate you need to talk to sales and if you need to ask how much you can't afford it" vs Linode's "developer first, here's all the info you need go ahead and sign up" approach.
  - jeremyjh 4y ago
    Oh and the salesperson is going to look up your company info before deciding if they'll even call you back to give you a quote.
- WirelessGigabit 4y ago
  Are you my colleague? I don't understand why part of our teams chose Akamai. The other ones who use Cloudflare just do API calls when they deploy. The Akamai team needs to send an email, then 2 meetings going back and forth, staging, approval, and then go-live.
  - bushbaba 4y ago
    Because Akamai still has better performance and price point than cloudflare.
diveandfight 4y ago
The fact that the founders named the company based off a Hawaiian-English dictionary look-up strikes me as pretty bland-corporate, "The company was named after akamai, which means 'clever,' or more colloquially, 'cool' in Hawaiian, which Lewin had discovered in a Hawaiian-English dictionary after the suggestion of a colleague." [0] From what I've seen living here and hearing Hawaiian Creole English (aka pidgin), nobody uses akamai to refer to something that is cool... Always used in the smart/clever context. But then again, I wouldn't expect the founders to know that if they didn't have knowledge of local Hawaii culture. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#History
- hparadiz 4y ago
  Look up Aegis and see how many companies use the Greek word for shield. Sometimes a name is the last thing you actually want to be dealing with when starting a company.
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1123581321 4y ago
Wow, I didn't realize that was him. He was on Flight 11 (struck North Tower) and his throat was cut. It's thought that he may have been trying to interfere with the initial disturbance as he had a combat background with the IDF.
recuter 4y ago
He wasn't just killed, he was the first and possibly only person on AA11 to try and fight them off. Man went down swinging. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin
bushbaba 4y ago
Not just killed in the 9-11 attacks. But a brave, courageous person who stood up against the terrorists on the flight.

guluarte 4y ago

RIP, it sounds so generic like IBM/Oracle cloud service

qbasic_forever 4y ago

I remember using them when I first started getting into Linux. Lots of good memories getting Debian to work on my Thinkpad X40 and marveling at having a cheap shell account online all the time from Linode. It felt like the future.