Is Linode by Akamai still worth it?

Might need more context than that... worth it for what? Hosting a random experimental personal project? I bet it is. Hosting a small app for a small business? Maybe. Hosting for a large multi-national corporation? Who knows?

I have a to-do item on my task backlog that says "look at linode now that they were bought by akamai, see if they're worth the fees."

I have two classes of apps: small-scale apps that don't use a lot storage, but might benefit from Akamai's CDN. So if there's an easy way to deploy redundant app servers and stage static content and it's cheaper than GCP or AWS, I'll certainly look at it. I'm hopeful.

But I also have apps that are bigger, require an annoying level of integration with customers' IAM systems. I suspect I may be courting disaster. But if there's anyone in Boston who can tell me how to easily integrate an AWS hosted federated identity system safely with their edge computing systems, I'm all ears.

After Linode's security incident, it was clear in their response that security was not their priority.

I don't remember what the incident was or what the response was, but I remember the response being corporate and appalling. I think they denied a security breach until evidence of breach was made public and I think they tried to pay the hackers to keep quiet rather than to tell the public they had a security breach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linode#Security_incidents

All I remember is thinking that what they did was unforgivable.