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Looking at their ever increasing pricing, no, I wouldn't say so. Linode is so far staying true to their promise of individual developer focused cloud.

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Welllllllll... don't forget that Linode had grown very stagnant, and had no desire to cut prices, until DigitalOcean came along and forced the issue. Once DO showed up, Linode suddenly had to produce nice tooling and $5/mo VM's.

I don't think that would have happened otherwise, and I'd be really surprised if Linode doesn't follow DO's price increases within a few months.

Not really saying this as a DigitalOcean evangelist or anything. It's just that business is business.

Absolutely agree! Never put a company on a pedestal! But IIRC Linode has had a long history of decreasing prices by adding better specs to existing plans, not sure how that will change with their acquisition. Just keep in mind to build portable apps and avoid lock in.

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