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What is Akamai Cloud Computing?
Akamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode) accelerates innovation with scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products, services, and people give developers and enterprises the flexibility and support to build, deploy, secure, and scale applications more easily from cloud…
Great service with only a little room for improvement
There is no place like Linode for keeping you online
Excellent Platform for Testing and Proof of Concept Work
Looking for a Linux cloud solution? Linode is worth the look
Linode--good solid cloud hosting at a decent price.
Great quality cloud hosting for unbeatable prices
No surprises in your monthly bill, a good solution for small to medium projects
Unmatched Quality at an Unmatched Price
Linode vs. Others - Our journey so far
Reliable provider with great customer service
Linode in small business
Linode for your cloud--most transparent and easiest around
Linode is my only choice when it comes to IaaS
They are, …
If loving Linode is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
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What is Akamai Cloud Computing?
Akamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode) accelerates innovation with scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products, services, and people give developers and enterprises the flexibility and support to build, deploy, secure, and scale applications more easily from cloud…
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Akamai Cloud Computing Features
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features
- Supported: Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
- Supported: Dynamic scaling
- Supported: Elastic load balancing
- Supported: Pre-configured templates
- Supported: Monitoring tools
- Supported: Pre-defined machine images
- Supported: Operating system support
- Supported: Security controls
- Supported: Automation
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Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | English |
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- 9.1Configurability2 ratings
- 9.1Product Scalability3 ratings
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(1-25 of 79)Linode is your friend!
- Linode servers are easy to configure. It comes with a stable OS on which you can install exactly the services you need to install.
- It is cheaper than other cloud VMs like AWS and Azure.
- Performance of the VMs is good. You could host small apps on the smallest linode which costs $5 per month.
- The blob storage should have pay for how much you use.
- There should be a email service like there Simple Email Service in AWS
- There should be option to scale down to save on costs in off seasons.
It is not good for user who are not experienced in using the Linix CLI. Since there is not much UI to do such tasks. It does not have a UI for CI/CD
There is no place like Linode for keeping you online
- Customer service
- Uptime
- Scaleability
- Ease of use
- Cost efficient
- Flexibility
- Managed services
- Serverless
Excellent Platform for Testing and Proof of Concept Work
- Configuring new VMs
- Simple billing model
- Managing VM security
- More backup options would be useful for production environments.
- An even larger range of Marketplace applications would be good.
Linode--good solid cloud hosting at a decent price.
- Customer support is always fast and knowledgeable.
- Pricing is competitive.
- The web UI is easy to navigate.
- Sometimes I'd like to be able to specify more configured options for a virtual server.
- Bandwidth out--should be less of concern these days.
- Administration panel is easy to use.
- VPS is pretty fast, enough for our needs.
- When a problem arises, they notify us and solve it in minutes.
- Recently I was surprised to find more regions in Europe to place my VPS
- Billing. I wish to have invoices in Euros.
- Due to Brexit, we abandoned our London data center. I would like to have some other in Spain or France to balance our assets.
- I would like to know more about how secure Linode's data centers are. We know literally nothing about these infrastructures.
- They added more regions in Europe. But billing remains in USD only
We also use Object Storage. It fits all our needs for a small project.
Unmatched Quality at an Unmatched Price
- Reliability
- Customer Support
- Cutting Edge Technology
- Email is a hard problem to solve well. A secure, plug-and-play solution from Linode would have made this aspect the web side of our business a snap.
Linode vs. Others - Our journey so far
- Dedicated CPU.
- Developer friendly services.
- Affordable cost.
- Detailed monitoring and analytics.
- Availability in India.
- More regions in India.
- Waiting for Bare Metals.
- Email services would be great.
Reliable provider with great customer service
- Reliable
- Quick, friendly customer service
- Good value for money
- S3-compatible storage across all data centers
- NFS block storage over multiple nodes
- More automated backup options
- Ability to assign our own IPs to load balancers
- Global networking option
- Uptime for hosted servers
- Ease of DNS hosting
- Ease of load balancing implementation
- Painless deployment process
- We don't take advantage of their Kubernetes program. No real need.
Get your Linode now!
- Virtual Private Server.
- Web hosting.
- Domain Name Server.
- Linode CLI.
- Monitoring
Why my startup chose Linode
- Price.
- Easy of use.
- Security.
- Reliability.
- More product offerings.
- Improved Windows support.
- More geo-located options.
Linode is great! What more needs to be said?
- Pricing
- Reliability
- Hardware/Technical Support
- S3-compatible storage expensive
- Bandwidth Alliance membership was dropped silently
As a Long-time Linode User, I'm a very happy customer
- Their virtual private servers are fast and easy to deploy and manage.
- DNS integration is a really welcome bonus.
- Object storage is easy to implement and deploy.
- Better API access to object storage public URLs.
My 8+ Year Experience with Linode
- Reliability.
- Customer Service.
- Price.
- Less features than AWS.
Believe Marco Arment: Linode really is that good
- Reliable services.
- Excellent web interfaces.
- Competitive pricing.
- Excellent documentation.
- No cons! Maybe it could be even cheaper or easier to use…
Linode - makes our lives much easier!
- Uptime - high availability and great communication about upcoming maintenance.
- Customer Service - Very technical contacts, able to understand requirements and assist if necessary.
- Pricing - Very competitive pricing, pay for what you use.
- I literally cannot think of a con.
- Reliability.
- Technology.
- Transparency.
- Simplicity and focus.
- Support.
- Speed.
- Documentation.
- Community.
- Finding documentation relating to the specific technologies active on my account.
- Low quota for deployment images gets in the way sometimes.
- S3 compatible storage isn’t ALWAYS compatible.
An ode to the Linode
Linode has provided us with a great range of cloud solutions to meet our changing needs.
Well done Linode!
- Cloud Block Storage for archive server
- Rsync access from servers to local site and return
- Immediate messaging for server bumps and the like
- Since Linode met all my current needs, I believe they will meet them as our business changes
Reliable and Trustworthy
It is very easy to create a new VM with Linode, install a particular Linux Distribution, and then customize the environment to suit the specific needs of that application or developer.
Some of the machines that we have created as development machines have gone on to become test and production machines, or other machines have been created as almost duplicates of those development machines.
- Technical Support
- Ease of creation
- Ease of modification ( settings, etc )
- Easy to allocate IP addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6.
- Some of the documentation requires some hand-holding to get started. It does explain how to do things, but sometimes finding the answer takes work.
- Some of the settings are not obvious, or in locations that are not completely clear without experience.
We have almost exclusively used Debian distributions for our work, but they offer a large number of other versions of Linux.
Beside "raw" distributions of Linux, they also offer other VMs containing specialized installations of a variety of applications, such as Wordpress, Drupal and Docker.
Affordable Computing Instance for Basic Users
- Default security updates
- Efficient computing instances
- Well defined admin panel to manage instances
- Customer support
- Estimate billing based on usages
- S3 like bucket object
Stop fighting your infra and start loving it
- It's super easy-to-use - set up a complete virtual environment in a few minutes.
- Linode is the ONLY service I know that will let you DOWNSIZE a VM - super useful.
- The price is right - spin up any size server and add additional block storage if needed.
- Object memory is cheap and integrates very well with S3 CLIs and applications.
- I've been very happy with the knowledgeable and friendly customer service.
- The more recent additions of a firewall and Kubernetes is a welcome plus.
- The load balancer ("Load Balancer") service is easy to spin up and configure.
- I'd love to see the ability to make snapshots, vs full backups only.
- Great Customer Support
- Clear communication during major events
- Slower to introduce "new" solutions such as S3 storage, Kubernetes, cloud functions, etc.
Powerful cloud infrastructure services and data management tool
- Data backup and recovery
- Data storage management
- Excellent for company data recovery.
- Great workflow approval solution.
- Faster to move large data across websites.
- Fully features for a new users is not that easy.
- Migrating a group of data can be difficult.
- Initial functionalities configuration can be more effective.
High performance, flexible compute at an affordable price
- High performance Linux based compute
- Flexible, pay as you go pricing that has become the norm in the industry
- Great support from real human beings!
- If you're looking for SaaS, look elsewhere, but that's not what I go to Linode for
- Storage prices are high