Other providers may follow along with the same kind of copycat behavior we've seen with layoffs and price increases in other markets, but it's hard to imagine that their costs have gone up 20%. Certainly their payroll hasn't.

There have been good reasons to flee Linode for a while now:

- Since their third or fifth or who-knows-which breach and subsequent fumble: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170 - Since the announcement that they were acquired by Akamai: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30352772 - Since they became "Akamai Cloud": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799273

Linode hasn't had a competitive advantage for at least a few years, and many would argue that their handling of repeated security incidents has made them a worse option than lots of competitors.

If you're still on Linode, do yourself a favor and make the time to find a new VPS provider.

Digital Ocean already increased its prices recently, then laid off a bunch of people. So the meager support it used to have is now gone.

Word on HN is that it's getting bought by Microsoft. If that's true it makes sense that DO would go away entirely.

The immediate implication would be to expect lesser price raises from other providers.

Akamai recently acquired Linode, and it was definitely perceived as a foreboding piece of news... and now here they go raising the prices.