# Linode 38 Hacker News commenters recommended Linode and 21 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 10 years (9 owners). **Verdict:** Recommended for stable, simple, developer-friendly VPS hosting, with many owners running servers for a decade or more. Common caveat: prices have risen since the Akamai acquisition. ## Why people recommend it - Stable and reliable for years (7 comments): "It's honestly been pleasantly stable. I figured I'd have to move after a few months, but we're a few years into the acquisition and everything still works." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817528)) "I host everything on Linode (have for over a decade) and am never caught up in these outages." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966092)) "you can get a tiny linode or digital ocean droplet, and not worry about hardware failing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712592)) - Cheap for small servers (6 comments): "most startups that just run an EC2 instance will save a lot of cash going to Hetzner, Linode, Digital Ocean or whatever" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816786)) "I serve a static site on the lowest Linode $5/month VPS and it is grotesquely overprovisioned for that use case." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211966)) "Linode will provide a configured Linux box for $5/mo that works well with Claude Code and Termius." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46495717)) - Simple, developer-friendly, easy to use (6 comments): "Linode at the time was the most developer friendly VPS provider." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46262842)) "the UI is consistent so I don't see a reason to change" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818920)) "i can still ssh into my linode and debug it directly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632078)) - Helpful support and DDoS scrubbing (3 comments): "we've quite enjoyed Linode (Akamai) for some custom servers (not http) over the last few years because they include DDOS scrubbing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084323)) "No longer getting DDOSed multiple years in a row on Christmas Eve is worth whatever premium Akamai wants to charge" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45817928)) "quickly got on the phone with a live human who was very familiar with the product and helpful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663143)) ## What people warn about - Prices rising since Akamai acquisition (4 comments): "linode was better and had cheaper pricing before being bought by akamai" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816880)) "Linode was great 10-15 years ago, then enshittification ensued" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917228)) "they've kept bumping up prices over and over" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819799)) - Responses to abuse and surveillance concerns (3 comments): "Linodes response of 'we have observed no illegal activity and are closing this ticket' is as close as you can get to 'yes, this is a legal wiretap and we aren't allowed to tell you about it'." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105069)) "The answers by Hetzner and Linode read as if they were straight out of a dystopian novel." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092684)) "Hetzner/Linode were MITMing their client(jabber.ru) withour any legal basis" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488946)) - Outages and slow performance (3 comments): "Linode would have a few in their London datacenter that just happened to occur at the worst possible time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833420)) "Yeah agreed. I actually only noticed because my two boxes are super slow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311032)) "the cpu steal and the permanent slow down on my linode" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364387)) - Limited IPv6 support (2 comments): "They do not support moving v6 addresses, which means that the only sites I have control over" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338755)) "Linode's default setup only gives each server a single /128." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797809)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Hetzner](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner.md): 415 recommend - [DigitalOcean](https://hackerapproved.com/p/digitalocean.md): 133 recommend - [exe.dev](https://hackerapproved.com/p/exe-dev.md): 115 recommend - [Hetzner Cloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hetzner-cloud.md): 99 recommend - [OVH hosting](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovh.md): 81 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.linode.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Linode", https://hackerapproved.com/p/linode/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).