AWS Auto Scaling monitors applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. The vendor states that using AWS Auto Scaling, it’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes.
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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 to edge on Akamai's distributed network.
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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.
I've tested many other hosting options... I have the feeling that Linode was superior in terms of technical profile, response time, and overall support.
AWS whilst perfectly fine would require a fairly radical rewrite of the code that exists all ready to fit in with the way AWS works, and we simply don't have the resources for that sort of rewrite and learning how to use AWS in general as it is very complicated. Linode by …
Linode is comparable to Digital Ocean, but DO adds the concept of Droplet, which adds a layer of complexity. When I tested DO, it had more "ready to use," preconfigured, machines with databases, etc., while Linode had only barebones VMs. Since then Linode has integrated a …