Same here. One of the things that made me a loyal Linode customer was that often they would have a resource upgrade (i.e. "we've doubled your RAM!") without a price increase. Not pairing this with some kind of resource upgrade feel anti-Linode. Thanks Akamai...

I remember those days :). Support was always reachable in IRC which doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

I have been using Linode for a little less than 15 years.

Linode's development has slowed to a crawl since this acquisition unless you start considering "Network updates to connect existing core sites to the Akamai backbone" and the likes as development.

I've been a customer since 2011 (moved away a couple of years ago). Even though they didn't increase their nominal prices, my prices raised steadily during all that time. Usually with some minor amount of extra resources added without me requesting them.

Also, most of the time, reverting the increases would take renegotiating things with support. Recently, it changed into requiring destroying my machines and creating new ones from scratch, what besides an improvement, is still as hard as migrating to another provider.

Anyway, I was not entirely dissatisfied with them, but this one is a sleazy behavior.

> Even though they didn't increase their nominal prices, my prices raised steadily during all that time. Usually with some minor amount of extra resources added without me requesting them.

This is strange, I've been a customer for a long time and never noticed that.

What did you move to? I'm using linode now and considering changing.

Prior to the acquisition they killed their long-lived “pay yearly and get a 2-month discount” offer. I loved that. With that gone and the recent increases I’m going from paying us$200/year a couple of years ago to us$288, before tax, and this with no increase in capacity.

14 years here too. I’ll be looking for alternatives.