Linode is slowly becoming like OVH and Digital Ocean….

I still remember a few years back when I used Linode for a year. They had nice service and reasonable support. However, after Linode was acquired by Akamai (or maybe even before that), their IPs quickly became a source of daily attacks and bots.

To be honest, all my abuse reports to them were answered quickly, but with the same typical reply you see below. And after 2-3 days, the attacks started again from a neighboring IP. So, reporting abuse had no purpose, not to mention that half the time when I sent the report from their page, I got the message “you don’t have access to this server.”

If Linode continues to host all the Internet garbage scripts, they will quickly become like other companies such as OVH, Digital Ocean, Colocrossing, Scaleway, Contabo, Hetzner, etc, a company to avoid with banned IPs all over the net.

Every admin in trouble must block their ASN (AS63949) since it is the only way to wake them up.

Hello,  

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.  

After looking into the report that you sent us, we can confirm that this activity did originate from an IP address on our platform and we have reached out to our customer to resolve this issue with them.

We’re going to work with our customer to resolve this situation. If we require additional information from you, we’ll reach back out.  

If you have any additional information to add, or questions for us, just let us know.

Regards,
Linode Support Team 

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 5:24 AM Linode Website <wordpress@linode.com> wrote:

They don’t even KNOW HOW TO SEND A PROPER “EMAIL FROM:” and “wordpess@” is used. Go figure!!!

August 2023 Update: Attacks didn’t stop and abuse reports are now totally ignored.