Akamai RTX 6000 Quadro, $ 1,000.00/mo. on Linux Cloud

RTX 6000 Quadro has been added on Apr 19, 2026

💪 CPU/Cores :	8 vCPU, 1 NVIDIA RTX 6000 Quadro GPU
🔋 RAM :	32000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	1
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Australia Brazil Canada France Germany India Indonesia Italy Japan Netherlands Singapore Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States
⚑ Targeting :	BR CA CN FR DE IT JP KR PT ES UK US

See also initial RTX 6000 Quadro plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Akamai is not a traditional shared hosting brand. It sits much higher in the market, closer to enterprise cloud infrastructure, CDN delivery, DNS, security, API protection, and edge computing than to ordinary web hosting for small brochure sites. The company was founded in 1998, and over time it became one of the defining names behind global content delivery and internet traffic acceleration. The current cloud side was strengthened in a major way after the Linode acquisition in 2022 for about $900 million, which pulled a more developer-friendly infrastructure platform into Akamai’s much larger delivery and security ecosystem.

The service range is broad. On the cloud side, they offer compute instances with Shared CPU, Dedicated CPU, High Memory, GPU, and Accelerated plans, plus Kubernetes, managed databases, object storage, block storage, DNS management, load balancing through NodeBalancers, and the Akamai App Platform for container-based application deployment. On the enterprise side, the catalog goes much further into content delivery, web and API security, DDoS mitigation, bot and abuse protection, Zero Trust / enterprise access, microsegmentation, and large-scale performance tooling. That makes Akamai attractive for businesses that want infrastructure and protection under the same umbrella rather than splitting cloud, CDN, DNS, and security across multiple vendors.

One of the strongest aspects here is scale. This is a company with a massively distributed global platform, not a small host leasing a few racks in one facility. It operates across core and distributed compute sites, more than 4,300 edge points of presence, roughly 130 countries, and 700+ cities, with an underlying network tied into roughly 1,200 network partners. For buyers who care about latency, reach, resilience, and enterprise-grade traffic handling, that scale matters much more than flashy low-end hosting offers.

There is also a clear divide in the way Akamai fits different customer profiles. For developers, SaaS teams, media platforms, online services, security-conscious businesses, and globally distributed applications, the offer is serious and technically deep. For someone who simply wants a cheap cPanel shared hosting account with bundled email and beginner site tools, Akamai is usually too enterprise-oriented and too infrastructure-centric to be the most natural fit.

AKAMAI’S DIRECT ACQUISITION

Cotendo.com

Akamai announced the deal in December 2011 and completed it in March 2012. The transaction was valued at roughly $268 million in net cash, while later purchase accounting pushed the final figure to about $278.9 million. Cotendo was an important move for Akamai at the time because it strengthened the company in application acceleration, dynamic site optimization, and cloud-related delivery technology, especially during a period when CDN competition was becoming much more aggressive.

Edg.io / Edgio

Akamai did not acquire Edgio as a whole. What happened instead is much narrower. After Edgio entered Chapter 11 in 2024, Akamai emerged as the buyer of selected assets and completed that transaction in December 2024. The package included certain customer contracts and patent license rights, but it did not include Edgio’s personnel, core platform, network assets, or the entire business. So this was an opportunistic asset purchase, not a full corporate takeover.

edgecast.com

Akamai never directly bought EdgeCast. The key deal here happened in 2013, when Verizon acquired EdgeCast and folded it into its own media-delivery and CDN expansion strategy. EdgeCast later became part of the broader Verizon Digital Media structure. Much later, this lineage moved again when Verizon’s media assets were sold and Edgecast eventually ended up in the Limelight / Edgio branch, not directly in Akamai.

terremark.com

Verizon announced the acquisition in January 2011 and closed it in April 2011 for about $1.4 billion. Terremark was a major strategic move for Verizon because it brought in stronger data center, cloud, and managed infrastructure capabilities at a time when large telecom operators were pushing deeper into enterprise cloud services.

mci.com

Verizon agreed to acquire MCI in 2005, and the deal closed in January 2006 for around $8.5 billion. This was one of the defining telecom and enterprise-network transactions of that period and helped shape what later became Verizon’s enterprise business identity.

concentric.com

Concentric belongs to an older hosting and telecom consolidation path that later fed into XO Communications. It sits much earlier in the chain and is better viewed as part of the infrastructure ancestry behind XO rather than anything directly connected with Akamai’s own acquisition line.

xo.com / XO Communications

Verizon announced the purchase of XO’s fiber-optic network business in 2016, with the transaction closing in 2017 for about $1.8 billion. That was another Verizon network-expansion move, especially relevant for enterprise connectivity and backhaul scale.

limelight.com / Limelight Networks

In 2022, Limelight agreed to acquire Yahoo’s Edgecast business for about $300 million, and after the transaction the company rebranded as Edgio. Only later, after Edgio’s financial collapse, did Akamai step in to buy selected pieces of that business.

verizondigitalmedia.com / verizonenterprise.com

Verizon’s own media-delivery and streaming structure, built from a combination of acquired and integrated assets. The best way to understand it is as a Verizon umbrella around CDN, streaming, and media infrastructure operations rather than as a standalone company that Akamai later purchased.

Verizon Enterprise grew out of Verizon’s enterprise strategy and was tied closely to the company’s integration of MCI and related enterprise operations. So this belongs to Verizon’s corporate structure, not to Akamai’s acquisition history.

THE EDGECAST / VERIZON / YAHOO / EDGIO CHAIN

EdgeCast moved to Verizon in 2013.
That business became part of Verizon Digital Media.
Verizon later sold its media business to Apollo in 2021 for $5 billion, and that operation returned to the Yahoo name.
Then in 2022, Limelight bought Yahoo’s Edgecast for about $300 million and turned the combined business into Edgio.
Finally, in 2024, Akamai bought only selected Edgio assets rather than the whole company.