Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services

Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by donavanm on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:43AM (#34800822)

> 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.

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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by scandox on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:55AM (#34801540)

That is the reverse of my experience with Akamai. Doing business with them in the thousands per month and they're very good.

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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by donavanm on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:15AM (#34801629)

Huh. 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.

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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by acdha on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:20AM (#34805937)

I used them for years in the thousands of dollars per month range. They were perfectly happy with that arrangement.

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