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It 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 eve
by ubermonkey 4y ago
It 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 agoAnecdotally, people seem to have more "human" support experiences with Linode than with Digital Ocean. Besides that, it looks like people like DO.
- baggachipz 4y agoI've been pretty happy with Vultr.
- brushfoot 4y agoVultr is great. Simple interface, quick and helpful support, great reliability over the 4 years I've been with them so far.
- nickersonm 4y agoI'll third this recommendation as well. I find them slightly easier to use than DO, and they have free transit to Cloudflare and Backblaze B2.