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Because they don't want to sell it to anyone who has ever heard of Linode. They are going to sell through their existing corporate sales contacts, as a new clou
by jeremyjh 4y ago
Because they don't want to sell it to anyone who has ever heard of Linode. They are going to sell through their existing corporate sales contacts, as a new cloud compute offering by your pals at Akamai.
- s09dfhks 4y agoThis is the correct answer
- pointlessone 4y agoDoes it mean that people who use Linode for Linode should be preparing to move out?
- apple4ever 4y agoI certainly would
- geuis 4y agoThis is what I've been worried about since the acquisition. I've been a loyal customer for over a decade and hosted jsonip.com there for 12 years. Now I seriously need to look for alternative hosting if/when the corpo overlords decide to start changing the offered products.
- scandox 4y agoI do business with Akamai on the DNS side and actually find them to be really supportive and flexible.
- dachryn 4y agoI've been with DigitalOcean for a very long time, their prices seem comparable to Linode, I always saw them marketed more or less the same. In fact, I don't even know why one would pick Linode over DigitalOcean or vice versa
- herbst 4y agoSame with Vultr if anyone still looking for options. Their new AMD power line is really worth looking into.
- hereforphone 4y agoBeware of Vultr. The product works fine but the customer service is horrible. I had three days of downtime and they got sick of me asking for updates, ignored me, and didn't tell me when the service came back up. I switched back to DO and I'm fine with that again.
- herbst 4y agoThe be fair I had something similar happen with DO before. If I want stellar support I don't go with a affordable mega coorperation.
- gibolt 4y agoI tried both, and stuck with DO. Linode UI was superclunky when you needed to dive into it, but DO was great. Any search for how to X immediately returned great documentation.
- rapind 4y agoSlicehost (acquired by rackspace) pioneered this type of in depth how to guides for webhosting on linux. In fact many of the setup docs on DO seem oddly familiar…
- thaumaturgy 4y agoThe writing's been on the wall for a couple of years now and Akamai doesn't have a strong presence in smaller niches. I moved most of my stuff over to DigitalOcean a while back. The few remaining instances are now an urgent todo.
- djbusby 4y agoI am! Heading over to OVH.
- ubermonkey 4y agoIt sure looks like it. I thought that the moment they got bought. Same thing happened with Slicehost. They got absorbed by the Rackspace borg, which ruined everything we found appealing at SH -- so we found Linode. I guess now I'm looking for the new Linode/Slicehost style provider. Sucks.
- bioemerl 4y agoIs anything wrong with digital ocean? This name change has me wanting to jump ship as well.
- baggachipz 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803696
- bioemerl 4y agoThat doesn't bother me as a customer. If the company is laying people off it's probably also getting more efficient and therefore cheaper.
- jayparth 4y agoEmpirically, it doesn't really correlate
- taskforcegemini 4y agothat money just goes somewhere else. I'd rather see it invested in technology/service than management, marketing etc
- dventimi 4y agoEvidently DO is doing layoffs and their support may be suffering for it. So there's that.
- spiffytech 4y ago
- ShakataGaNai 4y agoThe writing has been on the wall for a while. Linode was great and reliable for a time, but their pace of development of new features has slowed significantly. That's not a problem per se but as Akamai muscles in more and more, it's clear the "good ol' Linode" was dead. Not specific to this announcement today, but as of a few weeks ago I terminated my Linode account, which had been my primary and active hosting provider since Feb 2010.
- JellyBeanThief 4y agoMay I ask where you migrated to?
- stephenr 4y agoA client of mine has used Linode for several years, increasing from 2 low end VMs when I first started with them, to the current 8 machines (well technically it's 13 right now but the 5 extras are because of their network migration breaking stuff and us needing to setup new VMs) Not completely because of, but definitely somewhat because of the buyout, my client has agreed they should diversify and we're going to adapt it from a fault-tolerant single location (i.e. right now there are no SPOFs for them except the DC itself going dark), to three independent locations, with less fault tolerance per DC, but greater overall resilience. One location will probably stay with Linode, but the other two definitely won't be Linode (they'll almost certainly each be a different vendor). The benefit for us is that adopting multiple (individually) lower-resilience locations means we can be less picky about the host for a given location, because we're not using as many "advanced" features at each location, due to the vastly reduced complexity at the individual DCs. Vultr and Digital Ocean *seem* like the obvious "Linode type services but not Linode" vendors, but neither seem to have a fantastic reputation from what I've seen. OVH and Hetzner seem like two alternatives that may be worth checking out more, but they both seem to have an almost-intentionally complex service offering list, and it's hard to tell if some fairly basic things are available with plain VPS services (e.g. private IP addresses).
- crote 4y agoWhy acquire Linonde when you are going to throw away everything which makes Linode valuable? Wouldn't it be cheaper to just create a cloud computing offering from scratch?
- beagle3 4y agoIn the long run, possibly. In the medium run (first 2-5 years) it’s not cheaper. In the short run? Buying Linode gave them a foothold in the market. Creating it from scratch, would have taken months (or even years) to be able to make the first offer, and years until they built a reputation that would attract customers.
- chaosite 4y ago> a reputation that would attract customers. But the whole point is that they're throwing away any of Linode's existing reputation in favor of banking on the Akamai name.
- ubermonkey 4y ago....and probably not caring that for a significant chunk of folks, swapping small firm for HUGE firm is absolutely a downgrade.
- beagle3 4y agoBut they are starting with a customer base, some of which have been with Linode for over a decade. Way easier and faster to build reputation from that as a starting point. (And also already cash flow positive and profitable, ignoring the purchase=setup cost)
- tchvil 4y agoExactly, we are happy client for more than 14 years. And don't plan to move if they keep what Linode was good at. I mean when it is setup, except extremely rare migrations, you forget about it.