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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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