Akamai Cloud Computing

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai Cloud Computing	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode) include scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products and services support developers and enterprises as they build, deploy, secure, and scale applications.	$5 per month

Pricing

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Akamai Cloud Computing
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

Additional Details

CPU, transfer, storage, and RAM are bundled into one price. Storage capacity can be increased with additional Block Storage or S3-compatible Object Storage. Instant Backups can be added with complete independence to the stack. Linode NodeBalancers ensure applications are available.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Akamai Cloud Computing
Considered Both Products	Akamai Cloud Computing Erik Rothoff Andersson Founder Chose Akamai Cloud Computing It is more user-friendly than the big three cloud providers like AWS and GCP. The interface blows them out of the water; pricing is so much more competitive—no egregious bandwidth fees like AWS. As a small startup, cutting out the overhead of ultra-complex UI and pricing … Incentivized Helpful? Dakota Shultz CEO Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Better efficiency, better cost savings, improved Return on Investments. Overall the Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) cloud solutions are a step above the competition in regards to all categories. We prefer it for several reasons but the one that stands out is the cost and … Helpful? Giuseppe Nucifora Senior Software Engineer Manager Chose Akamai Cloud Computing the relevant point that made me choose linode is the pricing strategy. Incentivized Helpful? Rudolph Pereira Team Lead Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode has been intutive to use. It is easier to find things. Billing is easier to keep track off and it is cheaper then others. Linode VM's are faster then the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Partner Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode was considerably cheaper than Rackspace, Azure and Amazon when I last checked. It's also pretty simple by comparison. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode ticks almost all the checkboxes you need to host modern applications and systems. Price, scalability and customer service is the main reason for me to use Linode. We use Google Cloud and Azure for certain things, but when it comes to VPS Linode is way better. We have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Akamai Cloud Computing The Linode interface is just vastly better, easier, more responsive. Pricing overall is similar, but Linode is better for short term testing. Incentivized Helpful? Erle Pereira, MBA (EntMgt) Information Technology Specialist, Digital Strategist Chose Akamai Cloud Computing There are a lot of very good cloud operations. Linode, for us represents a good offering. It offers a simple way to control infrastructure, without being overly simplified. For us, it was a good median giving us the flexibility to explore, experiment and still build for scale. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Akamai Cloud Computing AWS is more expensive and less predictable. I get the feeling AWS might scale better for huge sites but cannot say for certain. DigitalOcean Droplets seems to be on a par with Linode, and cost-wise they are very similar. I've tried using Thema few times but always come … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I did not try or look into any other providers. Because of a client I knew about Linode and got familiar with their services, dashboard and support. I got a good impression and it was a no-brainer to use Linode for my own VPS needs. Incentivized Helpful? Tiago Ameller Gomila Co-founder Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I moved to Linode for the pricing, but quality of service is pretty good. Heroku is great for novice programmers with no DevOps experience, but you pay an extra cost for it. DigitalOcean has much better docs and tutorials than Linode (BTW, these material apply for Linode as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode's price for performance is unmatched. The scalability and customizability of their offerings is likewise superlative. Uptime is great and they have servers in all of the places we need them. Security is on par with the rest. Their web interface is useful. Their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode stands tall for Ease of Use and Developer Friendliness. The plans and pricing slabs makes it tough to resist from competition. Also as we get what we are subscribed to, unlike providers like AWS stealing our CPU during high demands, we don’t face issues due to noisy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode ultimately has better value for money. Not as many features/services as AWS but they do cloud computing very well. Managed databases are something we’d like to see and it’s on Linode’s roadmap. AWS nickels and dimes you for everything. We’ve also considered UpCloud, … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Hodgetts Operations Manager Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We chose Linode on a recommendation from a friend and we could don't be happier. We were sitting on three options, one was we put hardware into a datacenter and leased space, Microsoft Azure, and Linode. Ultimately we settled on Linode, it came at a spectacular price point for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Project Manager Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We built some applications on Google App Engine, and in comparison to Linode, you are more locked in and there is a steeper learning curve, as you have to adapt to Google's tools. In Linode, you can use whatever you are used to. With AWS, you are able to make whatever setup you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Amazon Web Services is vast and expansive, but far too expensive for what we need it to do. Azure is a more plug-in hosted solution, but again the price isn't worth it. I can use dokku to ape the functionality of heroku for far less than the latter charges. Digital Ocean's … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I've always use Linode because they had the best offering and flexibility for the lowest price. I've looked at others, but none gave me a good reason to switch. Linode offers everything I need and it keeps improving. So while others are out there, Linode seems to me the best … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode distinguishes itself with a sleek and intuitive interface that sets it apart from other providers. Its Dashboard UI is notably superior, particularly for tasks like monitoring and managing Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Domain Name Servers (DNS). With a user-friendly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is cheaper, but also far less complicated. Cost calculation is straightforward, unlike Azure, so it is simple to create projections for how much a solution will cost to deploy. Even though I get free Azure credits through my partner agreement with Microsoft, I selected … Incentivized Helpful? Dave Warren CEO Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I've used a few other platforms, DigitalOcean is probably the closest, but Linode always had better backend tools aimed at geeks whereas DigitalOcean just focuses too much on blank whitespace on their control panel, while offering less functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Erik Arneson Consultant Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode offers a fairly specialized subset of cloud services, which makes the dashboard interface a million times easier to use than both GCP and AWS. In addition, their VPS offerings give you a broader range of control with (thankfully) fewer options. This makes it easier to … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Akamai Cloud Computing
Small Businesses	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Akamai Cloud Computing
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (218 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (30 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (22 ratings)
Availability	8.5 (4 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (217 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.7 (12 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (3 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai Cloud Computing
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai Akamai Connected Cloud Linode would be a good service to host a content delivery network (CDN) because of its edge network but I'd prefer not to use Akamai Connected Cloud Linode for tasks that need GPU power such as Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI) because Akamai Connected Cloud Linode lacks deep GPU compute compared to AWS or Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure OM Omar Moustafa Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Akamai 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. Incentivized Eric Mintz CEO Read full review
Cons	Akamai 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Akamai I've been with them a long time. They provide me with the capabilities I need coupled with knowledgeable support that's not pay-for-extra. However, if I move to a non-Linux OS, the level of support by necessity will drop off. I can still ask questions about the infrastructure but I my ability to ask about OS features will decrease. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Akamai Simple and clear, no BS interface. From a design perspective it's no Apple or Stripe, but it does what it needs without making me want to stick a fork in my eyes, like when being forced to use Azure, AWS or GCP. Incentivized Erik Rothoff Andersson Founder Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Akamai There is very little planned downtime. Whenever planned downtime is necessary I'm always given lots of advanced notice and an explanation that I can pass along to my users that they'll understand. I really appreciate that Linode appreciates my commitment to reliable service to my users. It shows that they believe they've been successful when I'm successful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	Akamai Servers are well dimensioned and price performant. Of course one always wants more, so if they were to upgrade their hardware for the same price I'd consider moving more workloads. Networking - never had an issue. Hardware speeds - disks are fast and can grow to great size. Incentivized Erik Rothoff Andersson Founder Read full review
Support Rating	Akamai Support was excellent and fast. The documentation is extensive and helpful. I learned many things from their online documentation. I did not contact them by phone, but email took a day or less. Complex problems would probably need a service contract. I liked the friendly and polite tone of the support. Incentivized Osama Khan Support Specialist Read full review
Online Training	Akamai We got kick started with an initial walkthrough along with some free credits. The initial walkthrough helped us to understand Linode's ecosystem and start our hands on with Linode. We tried out some apps from Marketplace initially with the free credits, which not only helped us understand Linode better, but also those apps. We had implemented many such apps to our customers with Linode Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Akamai We're a small organization. The implementation of our Linode solution was trivial. Once I justified a cloud server to my bosses over a co-location -- the co-lo wasn't as fast as our linode server in load tests -- it was a matter of moving one Linux implementation to another. Trivial. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Akamai We switched to Linode from Namecheap due to poor uptime, and never had any issues with stability ever again after switching. We also cut our costs in half by switching. We compared Linode to DigitalOcean and Vultr, with the primary factor that caused us to go with Linode initially being their documentation. After using Linode for 3 years, their amazing support is another reason why we wouldn't consider anyone else at this point. Incentivized DM Dakota Miles Software Developer Read full review
Scalability	Akamai Although I use only a fraction of their product offerings, the total set makes scalability an easy goal to shoot for. As I said, I have a few customers that use the services my Linode provides...and I like it that way. However, should I need to scale up, I can...without incurring any more cost than I need to. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Akamai With the partnership of Linode, Configr is today the best performance hosting solution in Brazil. With Linode, Configr can provide a PaaS solution without the cost of taking care of all the infrastructure issues such as IaaS. Linode allowed Configr to be one of the biggest hosting companies in Brazil. Incentivized Arthur Furlan CEO & Co-founder Read full review
ScreenShots	Akamai Cloud Computing Screenshots