In fairness my first thought after reading Linode was those massive DDoS related outages they had. Dunno if that was even within the last decade, still the first thought though.

Anyway they're probably rebranding because Linode doesn't tell you what it is and they're selling to corporate.

They don't want "What is a Linode and why are we paying so much for it" every invoice, haha

RIP Linode.