Discord originally hosted on Linode in 2015. Unfortunately we had to move off, as we knew Linode would be the limiting factor in being able to continue to grow. So we chose to go with GCP.
Unfortunately, I suspect this is something that happens quite often for Linode, which is that, their most successful clients will eventually graduate off of them.
This may reposition their business in such a way that their most successful clients stay with them.
This is certainly the goal of Akamai as that is their core business. Linode though targeted the lower and and success stories are much rarer on that end. For every discord you have 100,000+ new clients. Linode was doing fine with this structure and cashed out at nearly a billion with just small customers. Plus discord was probably best to leave as their network wasn’t designed to handle dos attacks well.
Unfortunately, I suspect this is something that happens quite often for Linode, which is that, their most successful clients will eventually graduate off of them.
This may reposition their business in such a way that their most successful clients stay with them.