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0 pointsthrashh3y ago0 comments

Linode was maybe well known 5-10 years ago but I haven’t heard that name spoken in a long time

Linode hasn’t put themselves out there like other companies. For example, Digital Ocean has all those tutorials that show up in results. Vercel is linked to a hit framework (Next.js). Heroku was a darling linked to Ruby’s community and rode a wave of popularity.

Linode just has… existed for people specifically looking for virtual machines. That’s not a lot of people, relatively

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jolmg3y ago

> Linode just has… existed for people specifically looking for virtual machines.

I feel they have been improving little by little throughout the years. I don't remember the exact times when each change happened, but I remember when they introduced hourly pricing, also their $5/month VPS, more variety in the VPSes they offer (GPU-specialized options, high-mem specialized options, etc.), the update of their web interface, etc. I imagine there probably must've also been improvements in their APIs for launching servers, etc. since hourly pricing must've made that useful for automated scaling.

aliqot3y ago

It may be different for other sectors but it seemed like they sponsored every episode of Changelog podcast for quite some time. At the very least they must have sponsored every episode I listened to.

nickstinemates3y ago

Yeah once DigitalOcean launched it made Linode feel more folksy, to me at least. I swapped basically immediately and have been a customer since.

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