Dear FutureMe,
I am sad that Linode appears to be going to hell. It got acquired by Akamai, and now my personal email server is getting blocked by Microsoft and Comcast for being in a datacenter which is blasting out spam. I haven’t been able to reply to Carol Ann’s emails for five days. My support ticket with Linode has been open and sitting there with no action. I checked my outbound mail log, and it isn’t me who is blasting out spam. I presume that Akamai has opened their doors to be spammer-friendly because spammers have $$$ to spend with them.
I think that I need to ditch Linode and move to some VPS which hasn’t gone through enshitification.
I’m bummed because for the 501(c)(3) I’m a member of, I was the one who made the pitch to move off our previous VPS and to Linode (for a slight increase in cost).
Last time I moved mail servers, it was a chore.