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Deploy ASP.NET Core to Akamai (Linode)

Akamai's cloud compute platform, formerly Linode.

Linode cloud — now sold and billed under the Akamai brand — keeps the straightforward console it’s always had, backed by Akamai’s larger network. New accounts get $100 of credit good for about two months.

1. Create the account

Go to login.linode.com/signup and create an account with your email and a password. Verify your email, then fill in the account form (name, address, a card).

2. Create the API key

Go to cloud.linode.com/profile/tokens and click Create a Personal Access Token. Give it a label, an expiry (six months is reasonable), and set Linodes to Read/Write — leave everything else at None. Copy the token — it’s shown once.

3. Connect it in DotDeployer

In DotDeployer, go to Settings → Providers → Connect a provider → Akamai (Linode), enter a name, and paste in the token. Click Test connection, then Connect. The token is encrypted at rest, and revoking it from Linode’s Cloud Manager stops DotDeployer immediately.

4. Point your domain at the server

Once DotDeployer has provisioned your Linode and shows its IP, go to your DNS provider — Cloudflare DNS if that’s where your domain lives — and add an A record for your site’s hostname pointing at that IP. If you’re on Cloudflare, leave the record’s proxy status DNS only (the cloud icon grey, not orange): the Let’s Encrypt certificate request needs to reach your Linode directly. On another DNS host, add the same plain A record — no proxy setting to worry about there. Then add the domain under the site’s Settings tab in DotDeployer, which requests and renews the certificate automatically.