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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by ubermonkey on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:31AM (#34804257)
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.

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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by bioemerl on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:14AM (#34804879)
Is anything wrong with digital ocean? This name change has me wanting to jump ship as well.
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by baggachipz on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:29AM (#34805053)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34803696
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by bioemerl on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:51AM (#34805422)
That doesn't bother me as a customer. If the company is laying people off it's probably also getting more efficient and therefore cheaper.
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by jayparth on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:18AM (#34805907)
Empirically, it doesn't really correlate
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by taskforcegemini on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:03AM (#34817635)
that money just goes somewhere else. I'd rather see it invested in technology/service than management, marketing etc
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by dventimi on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:05AM (#34805662)
Evidently DO is doing layoffs and their support may be suffering for it. So there's that.
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by spiffytech on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:17PM (#34807154)
Anecdotally, people seem to have more "human" support experiences with Linode than with Digital Ocean.

Besides that, it looks like people like DO.

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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by baggachipz on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:29AM (#34805063)
I've been pretty happy with Vultr.
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by brushfoot on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:56AM (#34805523)
Vultr is great. Simple interface, quick and helpful support, great reliability over the 4 years I've been with them so far.
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by nickersonm on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:18PM (#34808189)
I'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.
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