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by hjr265 1201 days ago
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."

4 comments

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

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.
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...
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.