Akamai To Acquire Linode

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• Nyr Community Contributor, Veteran

  February 2022

  @vero said:

  @Nyr said:
  Sad to see one of the few independent players gone, but the trend in the industry is clear.

  As a business owner, what you (I mean all the business owners here) would prefer:
  keep running company like Linode or rather put $900M in your pocket? Who would ever bother selling VPSes if they could afford not to?

  It depends. I get what you mean, but there are plenty of millionaires which could've made an exit and are still working hard on their business.

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• Goodtesteronline Member

  February 2022

  Linode seem lagged behind competitors, getting acquired is their logical step to make. Cloud Hosting seem to be more like a commodity right now, and exiting at this time is perfect.
• vero Member, Host Rep

  February 2022

  @Nyr said:

  there are plenty of millionaires which could've made an exit and are still working hard on their business.

  There is type of complicated people, who can't afford idling and need very little sleep Many known scientists, politicians and business people are amongst them, of course. But after earning a considerable amounts, their focus shifts dramatically, as they can afford experimenting, like flying to space. But there are still grey cardinals, who are actually running the states, the world and those successful business people depends on them. It's not that $900M makes you king of the world. There are leagues, where entrance can't be bought. But you can still build rockets with that amount of money and call it working hard on your business.
• raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

  February 2022 edited February 2022

  @ollietrex said: Vultr already trying the big evil corporation card to get there customers: https://www.vultr.com/news/Congratulations-Linode.-Where-do-you-go-from-here/

  EDIT: ignore, I think I misinterpreted.
• vovler Member

  February 2022

  @raindog308 said:

  @ollietrex said: Vultr already trying the big evil corporation card to get there customers: https://www.vultr.com/news/Congratulations-Linode.-Where-do-you-go-from-here/

  "Big Evil Corporation"?

  GTFO.

  You all would be the first to cheer for refugee offers. How is this different?

  I mean, Vultr's offering freebies to people and you're calling them "evil". 🙄

  I think he's saying that vultr is calling akamai a big evil company. Not that vultr is a big evil company
• raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

  February 2022

  @PUSHR_Victor said: I really hope that you are wrong.

  Yes, me too. I like vultr.
• raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

  February 2022

  @vovler said:
  I think he's saying that vultr is calling akamai a big evil company. Not that vultr is a big evil company

  Rereading I think you're right. Sorry @ollietex - withdrawn.
• nanankcornering Barred

  February 2022

  vultr

  
• hiphiphip0 Member

  February 2022

  I don't know whether it is related. A lot of my clients' 1G plan Linode suddenly got not enough. It looks like they are fading out.
• sanvit Member

  February 2022

  @hiphiphip0 said: 1G plan Linode suddenly got not enough

  I didn't understand this part. I can still see the 1G instance on their website. What is the problem you/your clients are facing?
• hiphiphip0 Member

  February 2022

  @sanvit said:
  I didn't understand this part. I can still see the 1G instance on their website. What is the problem you/your clients are facing?

  OOM and slow websites. It was OK.
• Radi Host Rep, Veteran

  February 2022

  And here I am with insane amount of referral credit, which I have literally no idea what to use for.
• NoComment Member

  February 2022

  @hiphiphip0 said:

  @sanvit said:
  I didn't understand this part. I can still see the 1G instance on their website. What is the problem you/your clients are facing?

  OOM and slow websites. It was OK.

  Maybe it is time to upgrade to a 2G instance. That's the point of scalable cloud anyway.
• hiphiphip0 Member

  February 2022

  @NoComment said:
  Maybe it is time to upgrade to a 2G instance. That's the point of scalable cloud anyway.

  Yeah, I upgraded all of them to 2G, it's fast again.