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by St-Clock
3408 days ago
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We moved >1K$ hosting per month from them to StormOnDemand because of the lack of transparency on security issues, particularly the PagerDuty incident. This was heartbreaking because Linode's value (performance, reliability, support, price) is almost impossible to match if your requirements fit their VM configurations. But in the end, we did not want to risk another security or DDoS fiasco. We estimated that the risk was high that they would be targeted again, we could not believe their promises to get better at face value considering previous transparency issues, and we did not want to tell our customers that a company that had experienced security issues for the past three years had suffered from another attack[1]. They seem to have invested quite a lot in their networking infrastructure (kudos!), but I believe they still use their old coldfusion applications. [1] Non-technical customers often ask us why we are not hosting on Amazon because they heard it's where serious companies host their servers (!). We used to explain why Linode was a more cost-effective choice, but Linode was not a nice name to google in early 2016. |
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For now, yeah. But the new Manager mentioned in the blog post is just a client for our new API, which is written in Python.[1]
You can even check out the new Manager now if you want: https://github.com/linode/manager
It's still in alpha (and separate from our regular service), but we're hoping to have it out in beta soon!
[1] https://engineering.linode.com/2016/04/12/Announcing-APIv4.h...