[hjr265]

This news is shared as a banner within the Linode Manager interface with the following text:

"Effective 04/01/2023 the price of compute services will change by decreasing transfer fees and updating shared and dedicated plan rates. Read more."

[sschueller]

Doing it this is very dishonest and tells you a lot about what kind of people work at Akamai communications department.

[cptcobalt]

> prices will change by decreasing transfer fees and updating shared and dedicated plan rates

this is a stellar example of the dark pattern of passive user-hostile language.

[j_ckley]

Linode employee here! We're also sending tickets to active customers about this – if you have services with us, you should get a ticket (and email) at some point today.

[winddude]

Or you could tell them to axe the price increases. And maybe axe some management and CEO salaries at akamai, https://www.comparably.com/companies/akamai/executive-salari...

[bombcar]

I don’t know how many people hit transfer fees - a few VPS and you’ve got terebytes to spare. But the 20% hits everyone.