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> When I think Linode, I think developer, small consultancy, etc. When I think Akamai, I think enterprise. Yes, they're clearly trying to sell cloud services i
by lamontcg 4y ago
> When I think Linode, I think developer, small consultancy, etc. When I think Akamai, I think enterprise.
Yes, they're clearly trying to sell cloud services into their enterprise customers.
Because small developers/consultancies have small pockets, and enterprises have large ones.
It makes perfect sense as business strategy.
But it requires understanding that you don't matter to them (you are not the main character of Akamai's story/strategy).
Although it does mean I'll probably need to consider moving clouds myself finally after a decade, because the writing has to pretty much be on the wall at this point that they're not going to want me as a customer...
- bastardoperator 4y agoIt doesn't make any sense from this vantage point. Akamai thinks they can sell me Linode at enterprise prices? LOL, that's not happening.
- corobo 4y agoNo, Akamai wants to sell enterprise users at enterprise prices. They would prefer you stop using them if it's anything less. If anyone has tried to use Akamai for anything without an impressive budget behind them I imagine they can confirm this theory.
- bastardoperator 4y agoCDN is just a fancy name for web hosting and you can use Akamai through Azure CDN anytime you want. I worked on the Edgecast/Verizon CDN, it's just DNS and web servers all the way down but with more expensive buzzwords.
- friendzis 4y ago> Because small developers/consultancies have small pockets, and enterprises have large ones. Enterprises love long term contracts. Cloud is all about highly-dynamic PAYG. Who does not love long term bulk contracts at [roughly] the price of dynamic PAYG?
- adql 4y agoRight but from big business customer perspective it is another cloud with way less available services than other clouds.
- lamontcg 4y agoI would expect to see them adding a lot more services in order to compete. Since they're relying on cross selling the quality will likely be lower but the overall package will make the numbers look happy, even if the developers using it aren't.