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		karterk on July 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LWN pays $300 for a well-written article from new ... DigitalOcean started this trend but this has now become a very crowded space with other hosting providers like Linode etc. using the same strategy.

hboon on July 23, 2020 [–]

If you are referring to writing useful articles (and not referring to paying for articles), Slicehost and Linode definitely started this way earlier than DigitalOcean.

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