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Sad day for Linode. Great standalone niche hosting platform. I get that these things happen. I was part of a Google acquisition that eventually got shutdown/reb
by asim 4y ago
Sad day for Linode. Great standalone niche hosting platform. I get that these things happen. I was part of a Google acquisition that eventually got shutdown/rebranded. From an acquirer standpoint it makes sense. For existing users they probably now feel deflated as the whole reason they went to Linode was to avoid incumbents.
- donavanm 4y ago> the whole reason [existing users] went to Linode was to avoid incumbents. Sounds like you just identified a tranche of customers Akamai doesn’t care about. As everyone else in the comments is pointing out Akamai doesn’t want your $1000/mo. It’s a waste of their time. They want customers who are eager to talk private pricing plans and $1M commits. And I expect the linked infra/team will now be providing services that those $MM customers want.
- scandox 4y agoThat is the reverse of my experience with Akamai. Doing business with them in the thousands per month and they're very good.
- donavanm 4y agoHuh. Ok, I admit I’m a bit surprised by the counter example but fair enough. My experience was more competing with them for the big dollar “enterprise” accounts I described.
- acdha 4y agoI used them for years in the thousands of dollars per month range. They were perfectly happy with that arrangement.
- jonwinstanley 4y agoI was using a standalone niche host in the Uk called TSOHost who seemed quite good. They recently announced they were shutting down their cloud hosting and gave just 45 days notice to move sites. Funny part was that the way they gave their customers notice was flawed and most customers didn’t receive any email from them. I wish a sense of deflation was the only issue I’d had!
- asim 4y agoYea that's pretty painful. I recently had to shutdown a service for my startup but I left the infrastructure running. People will gradually transition out and the traffic will go to zero. Not everyone can afford that luxury. I just made it explicitly clear there's no ongoing maintenance or support.
- devoutsalsa 4y agoI once heard a guy say the best way to get people off your platform was to just keep raising the price. Make a fortune off the few that stick around with fewer customers to keep happy.
- asim 4y agoI wish that was the case. It never formulated like that. If you raise prices your support burden also goes up. Your need to innovate increases. The gap between profitability and the funding needed to get there is wide. Hence most startups die.
- christophilus 4y agoHe’s saying, when you’re ready to shut your business down, keep jacking up the prices, and eventually your customers will leave. In that scenario, you don’t need to innovate or provide good support. The whole point is soft-kicking your customers to the curb while making some money. Ethical? Probably not.
- topicseed 4y agoOh wow, it was my first ever paid host back a few years ago. How come they've shut that down, what's their new business model now?
- jonwinstanley 4y agoThey were acquired by GoDaddy, but seem to be desperate to get rid of all existing customers rather than migrate them to GoDaddy's hosting? It's odd