{"id":38681,"date":"2023-03-03T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38681"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:16:03","slug":"linode-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/03\/linode-price-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Linode Price Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linode.com\/blog\/linode\/akamai_cloud_computing_price_update\/\">Shawn Michels<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34982647\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.linode.com\/blog\/linode\/akamai_cloud_computing_price_update\/\">\n<p>The price of Shared and Dedicated compute plans will increase by 20%. Our shared Nanode plan remains unchanged at US$5 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Additional IPv4 IP addresses will increase from US$1 to US$2 per month. IPv6 addresses remain free.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Akamai faces the same macroeconomic headwinds of growing costs for data center space, energy, and hardware as other providers. We resisted making any changes to our offerings for as long as we could.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34984071\">csnover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34984071\">\n<p>The message being sent to customers claims that they &ldquo;remain more aggressively priced than our peer providers&rdquo;, which is nonsense as far as I can tell&mdash;unless they now consider their &ldquo;peer providers&rdquo; to be the likes of AWS, Azure, and GCP?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34984188\">nerdjon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34984188\">\n<p>What is really weird about this, they are now more expensive than comparable systems on AWS Lightsail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marcoarment\/109954155950443476\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marcoarment\/109954155950443476\"><p>Deleted my earlier post about packet loss to Linode &mdash;&nbsp;that may be a regional Verizon thing closer to me, so I can&rsquo;t blame them for it.<\/p><p>The price hike still has me looking around and making a contingency plan, though.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@room34@mastodon.sdf.org\/109954325035426476\">room34<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@room34@mastodon.sdf.org\/109954325035426476\"><p>I&rsquo;m not as concerned about the price increases as I am about Akamai just completely changing what Linode is, which I feel is inevitably underway. Very frustrating since I just moved to Linode last year after finally getting fed up with Digital Ocean&rsquo;s laissez-faire attitude turning their network into a spam factory. Up to now I&rsquo;ve been really happy with Linode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/akamai-kills-linode-brand\/\">Akamai Kills Linode Brand<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Michels (Hacker News): The price of Shared and Dedicated compute plans will increase by 20%. Our shared Nanode plan remains unchanged at US$5 per month. Additional IPv4 IP addresses will increase from US$1 to US$2 per month. IPv6 addresses remain free. [&#8230;] Akamai faces the same macroeconomic headwinds of growing costs for data center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-03-03T21:36:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"1f4249be-10d9-448d-839f-db00f2daaeb3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-12-09T21:16:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AH0JJvhDZRI2Dn9sA8tqusw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2338,2337,96,2862],"class_list":["post-38681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-akamai","tag-linode","tag-web","tag-web-hosting"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38682,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38681\/revisions\/38682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}