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by ryanlol 2338 days ago
Perhaps you like problems?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110 Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3655137 Linode Manager Security Incident (2012)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756 Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked (2013)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086921 An old system and a SWAT team (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10825425 Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998661 The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170 Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset (2016)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806686 Linode is suffering on-going DDoS attacks (2016)

> why would I want to use Linode over GCP or AWS?

If you include dedi providers like OVH into this comparison, you probably just wouldn’t.
2 comments
mwcampbell 2338 days ago
Nobody's perfect, and Linode clearly had growing pains. Can you point to anything in the past four years? If not, I'd give them another chance.
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eropple 2337 days ago
Why would you “give a chance” to a commodity provider that had no differentiation but does have a bad history?

They’re not really cheaper, their hardware isn’t better, and they’ve shown a willingness to toss security out the window. Doesn’t strike me as deserving of “a chance”.

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mwcampbell 2337 days ago
Because they're a small, bootstrapped company in a tough industry, and I figure I should treat them the way I'd want to be treated?
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eropple 2336 days ago
I get that, but there's such a thing as being so open-minded your brain falls out.
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EugeneOZ 2338 days ago
Comparison with dedicated servers is comparing apples to oranges, but except that line your comment has a pretty strong point.
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ryanlol 2338 days ago
Is it though? There are some very specific use cases where dedicated servers won’t work, but those are certainly a small minority of Linode customers.

Stuff like Terraform works just fine with OVH dedicated servers, so that can’t be the problem either.

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