Linode, comparedWell-run for twenty years, and now part of something much larger.

Linode earned its reputation with good support and honest pricing over two decades. The Akamai acquisition changed the compliance surface more than it changed the product, and that is the part relevant here.

7 minute read · Their pages last read 30 July 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

Linode

Where: United States, owned by Akamai
Site: linode.com

What they are genuinely good at

Support that answers, from people who understand the platform — historically its best feature.
Straightforward pricing and a stable, predictable platform with a long track record.
Akamai’s network behind it, which is a real engineering upgrade.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where: eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site: dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 July 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published?	Linode	DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level.	No	Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround.	No	Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default.	No	Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier.	Published	Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule.	Not published	Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on.	Not published	Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask.	Partly	Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”.	Partly	Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another.	No	Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form.	Partly	Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell.	Partly	Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy.	Partly	Published

On eleven of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

A larger parent is a larger compliance function

This is not a criticism. A company of Akamai’s size has obligations and legal exposure that make a fast, conservative response to complaints the only rational policy. A smaller operator can afford to answer a notice with a letter; a large one usually cannot.

That trade is the reason this estate is structured the way it is. Eight small companies, one per jurisdiction, each small enough that a complaint can be answered on its merits rather than settled for speed.

United States, again

The DMCA applies directly, notice and takedown is the process, and no policy changes that. Every region here is outside US jurisdiction; that is the difference in one sentence.

Support

Theirs is better resourced. Ours reaches an engineer rather than a queue, which is a different kind of good and worth being honest about rather than claiming to beat a company with a support organisation.

Questions people actually ask

Did the Akamai acquisition change the terms?

The relevant point is not a clause, it is that the party answering a complaint is now much larger and has more to lose. That shifts the default towards removal.

Can I move a Linode here?

Yes, and an engineer does it at no charge, including the sync window and the DNS cutover — see migration.

Buy theirs instead if

You want a large, stable US provider with support that answers properly.
Akamai’s edge and security products are useful to you in the same account.
The content is ordinary and being an identified customer is not a problem.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue

Others of the same kind

Good engineering, and a compliance department. What changes when the company holding your disk is answerable where the complaint is filed.

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