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The Linode brand is so well known by developers. Why in the world would Akamai risk the brand any further than they already have like this?

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rdevsrex 4y ago
Exactly. Salesforce bought Heroku but kept the brand name.
- bdcravens 4y ago
  Ditto for Microsoft and Github.
  - flangola7 4y ago
    It's morbidly fun to think about how much of the internet would break if github.com no longer resolved.
  - stjohnswarts 4y ago
    Surprised, they didn't rebrand to Microhub.
    - patapong 4y ago
      Pretty sure it would have been git soft.
    - nayaketo 4y ago
      GitSoft would be better but maybe give people the wrong idea.
      - romeoblade 4y ago
        That sounds like a turn off!
    - walthamstow 4y ago
      GitHub 365, surely
    - slig 4y ago
      Microsoft Git Server
      - anticensor 4y ago
        Microsoft Git Hub
- selcuka 4y ago
  > Salesforce bought Heroku but kept the brand name. They kept the name, but killed the product.
twblalock 4y ago
Is it really well known? I've only ever heard of Linode because they sponsored some Youtube videos. I've never heard it mentioned in a professional setting as a developer. On the contrary, Akamai is incredibly well known.
- jay-barronville 4y ago
  I can’t tell you why you haven’t heard of Linode much, but yes, the Linode brand absolutely is well known. When I think Linode, I think developer, small consultancy, etc. When I think Akamai, I think enterprise. Completely different brands. It just seems like such a bizarre business decision to me for Akamai to throw a strong brand like that away just because they want to slap their name on the product instead. All in all, I’m pretty sure this will turn out to have been a mistake.
  - echelon 4y ago
    They're not the only ones. I consider myself up to date, and I had no idea Linode was in the VPS business. If I had to guess their mission, it sounds like Tailscale. [1] I've used Digital Ocean and all the big cloud providers. Vercel, Netlify, Heroku. Haven't touched Akamai, but I certainly know of it. [1] https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/ https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
    - super256 4y ago
      Linode is better comparable to Vultr, UpCloud and DO, rather than the serverless stuff at Netlify and Vercel. :)
    - johnnylambada 4y ago
      Linode has been around forever and were once one of the few games in town. They were into cloud computing years even AWS was. A lot of, er, elder statesman developers remember them from way back then. So if you’ve gotten into the game less than 15 years ago, it makes sense that you may not have heard of them.
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stjohnswarts 4y ago
Likely they're appealing to execs who have never heard of linode but have seen akamai here and there because they simply have been on the web on occassion.
Illniyar 4y ago
Because the Akami brand is known to executives, and those are the people buying the product? Linode is a good service among a lot of equally good competitors (digitalOcean, ec2/lightsail, ovh, hetzner, vulter) in the space, but it's not as much a house name as Heroku or Github - it's not a trailbrazer, the cheapest, the most advanced or the first of it's kind. It's a good solid choice among other solid choices. On the other hand Akami is, in many circles, known as the best (as a CDN at least - it is regarded by many as the most expansive, most stable and most feature rich), it is recognized by many as first (as a cdn) and is very much a house name.
fxtentacle 4y ago
Because "Linode" is associated with affordable. Akamai stands for premium at $1M+ annually.
corobo 4y ago
In fairness my first thought after reading Linode was those massive DDoS related outages they had. Dunno if that was even within the last decade, still the first thought though. Anyway they're probably rebranding because Linode doesn't tell you what it is and they're selling to corporate. They don't want "What is a Linode and why are we paying so much for it" every invoice, haha RIP Linode.

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rdevsrex 4y ago

Exactly. Salesforce bought Heroku but kept the brand name.

bdcravens 4y ago
Ditto for Microsoft and Github.
- flangola7 4y ago
  It's morbidly fun to think about how much of the internet would break if github.com no longer resolved.
- stjohnswarts 4y ago
  Surprised, they didn't rebrand to Microhub.
  - patapong 4y ago
    Pretty sure it would have been git soft.
  - nayaketo 4y ago
    GitSoft would be better but maybe give people the wrong idea.
    - romeoblade 4y ago
      That sounds like a turn off!
  - walthamstow 4y ago
    GitHub 365, surely
  - slig 4y ago
    Microsoft Git Server
    - anticensor 4y ago
      Microsoft Git Hub
selcuka 4y ago
> Salesforce bought Heroku but kept the brand name. They kept the name, but killed the product.

twblalock 4y ago

Is it really well known? I've only ever heard of Linode because they sponsored some Youtube videos. I've never heard it mentioned in a professional setting as a developer. On the contrary, Akamai is incredibly well known.

jay-barronville 4y ago
I can’t tell you why you haven’t heard of Linode much, but yes, the Linode brand absolutely is well known. When I think Linode, I think developer, small consultancy, etc. When I think Akamai, I think enterprise. Completely different brands. It just seems like such a bizarre business decision to me for Akamai to throw a strong brand like that away just because they want to slap their name on the product instead. All in all, I’m pretty sure this will turn out to have been a mistake.
- echelon 4y ago
  They're not the only ones. I consider myself up to date, and I had no idea Linode was in the VPS business. If I had to guess their mission, it sounds like Tailscale. [1] I've used Digital Ocean and all the big cloud providers. Vercel, Netlify, Heroku. Haven't touched Akamai, but I certainly know of it. [1] https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/ https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
  - super256 4y ago
    Linode is better comparable to Vultr, UpCloud and DO, rather than the serverless stuff at Netlify and Vercel. :)
  - johnnylambada 4y ago
    Linode has been around forever and were once one of the few games in town. They were into cloud computing years even AWS was. A lot of, er, elder statesman developers remember them from way back then. So if you’ve gotten into the game less than 15 years ago, it makes sense that you may not have heard of them.
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stjohnswarts 4y ago

Likely they're appealing to execs who have never heard of linode but have seen akamai here and there because they simply have been on the web on occassion.

Illniyar 4y ago

Because the Akami brand is known to executives, and those are the people buying the product? Linode is a good service among a lot of equally good competitors (digitalOcean, ec2/lightsail, ovh, hetzner, vulter) in the space, but it's not as much a house name as Heroku or Github - it's not a trailbrazer, the cheapest, the most advanced or the first of it's kind. It's a good solid choice among other solid choices. On the other hand Akami is, in many circles, known as the best (as a CDN at least - it is regarded by many as the most expansive, most stable and most feature rich), it is recognized by many as first (as a cdn) and is very much a house name.

fxtentacle 4y ago

Because "Linode" is associated with affordable. Akamai stands for premium at $1M+ annually.

corobo 4y ago

In fairness my first thought after reading Linode was those massive DDoS related outages they had. Dunno if that was even within the last decade, still the first thought though. Anyway they're probably rebranding because Linode doesn't tell you what it is and they're selling to corporate. They don't want "What is a Linode and why are we paying so much for it" every invoice, haha RIP Linode.