I have a lot of infrastructure on Linode, and have been a customer for many years. I've been very happy with the price/performance, especially compared with large providers some of my customers use like Rackspace.
I hope that being part of a public company won't cause too much pressure to reduce services or raise prices.
To be fair moving from rackspace to an OVH datacentre that's on fire is a step up from my experience. I occasionally have to deal with a Rackspace acquisition and it's hell.
Me too. Used a different service more than 15 years ago that provides a ton of resources at an inexpensive price, then it was bought by rack space. Quickly migrated to Linode after that.
There aren't any clear alternatives to Linode this time.
I hope that being part of a public company won't cause too much pressure to reduce services or raise prices.