setting up another linode "akamai" :( and man. i miss when linode was simpler and easier.
no surprise to anyone, i'm sure, but it sucks seeing a system that was pretty easy to use, simple to set up, and relatively cheap, end up ballooning into a mess of ~new features~ i don't want and can't use, all while everything else goes up in price and gets shittier
it fuckin sucks that the same shit that happens to us irl -- prices skyrocketing, everything getting shittier with "upgrades" -- happens online, too, and with the same consequences: either grit your teeth and shell out more, or pack up everything and try to move to another home that will do the same soon enough
dreamhost went through much of the same, new ceo that came in and changed everything for the worse; instead of being a useful shared hosting setup that i could easily bring friends into (ask me about all the sites under rustedlogic.net!) it's now a hellhole of mismatched options that broke and "automatic" (and unconfigurable) versions of what used to be simple
