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Comment by 0xbadcafebee | Hacker News Reader

One dying company absorbing another dying company.

Linode has really gone down the tubes. Just try to find out what the prices are for their services. Or how to actually use any of the services they provide besides a VM instance. Can you find the magical documentation site without Google? I couldn't. And pricing for some services requires you to sign up for an account and attempt to deploy the service, or you have to go through a "professional services" team for a "quote".

DigitalOcean and AWS don't have a problem directing users toward product information or docs, and they provide a simple web UI to use all their services. But Linode can't seem to grasp it, after years of trying to roll out a new web UI. Rather than provide you simple managed services wrapped around specific technology, they provide "scripts" you can execute as a single VM boots up. They can't even show you how to create a VPC without burying it 4 levels deep in a drop-down menu of a specific linode created in a specific region.

I got so fed up with it that I moved my one remaining linode off to DO. Not only do they have more services in more regions, but I can actually find the information I need to make changes.

I'm not understanding what you want to be different. Pricing and docs are both linked to from the menu at the top of the Linode.com homepage. I did not need to do any searching, figurative or literal, to find them.

> Just try to find out what the prices are for their services.

From the Linode.com homepage, click "products" in the main menu, click any product, and the pricing is on the page. There's a "view full price list" link on each page to a price list for all products on a single page:

https://www.linode.com/pricing/

> Can you find the magical documentation site without Google?

From the Linode.com homepage, click "Docs" at the top. "Docs" is linked to https://www.linode.com/docs/

If you start from a product page, each contains a direct link to that product's section of the docs. For example, the Kubernetes page links directly to https://www.linode.com/docs/products/compute/kubernetes/ with the link "View product documentation >", above the fold.

Pricing is at https://www.linode.com/pricing/ (Don't think there's anything you need to sign up to see). Docs are at https://www.linode.com/docs/

Both are the top menu.

How is Akamai dying? Isn't Akamai still the largest CDN around?

Enterprise only sales model and has traditionally been very expensive and hard to buy.

When they launched their Image Manager product them had trouble persuading sales people to sell it are it reduced bandwidth charges

The legacy of lots of PoPs makes them expensive to run, and purges take longer but ironically may help when it cones to moving content to be really close to the end user

> One dying company absorbing another dying company

You know Schlumberger and Bechtel have really tanked in the consumer branding, But I'd hesitate to say they are "dying"

I think there is no world in which Akamai can be said to be "dying"

Unless you have some knowledge of the balance sheet, This is hyperbole

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