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March 31, 2021
We were a small hosting company, all of our web servers and various other services were run on Linode's platform. Although I have largely exited the Webhosting industry, I still have half a dozen Linode servers hosting our internal applications, customer-facing website, and a few remaining customer sites. Even to this day, I run some public mirrors for a few open-source projects.
- Pricing
- Reliability
- Hardware/Technical Support
- S3-compatible storage expensive
- Bandwidth Alliance membership is ambiguous at best
Linode is basically our provider for VPS solutions. Whenever we build a web application, we host it on Linode servers. It is used by the tech division of the organization. It basically takes our mind off the complexity of aws(ec-2 instances) and their not so transparent billing. I find Linode to be very simplified, clean and gets the job done with very transparent billing.
- The documentation to get you started is very good. Detailed enough to get you off the ground and not too bulky to bog you down.
- Pricing and Billing very clear and fair.
- The Linode platform is not complicated. You are just shown what you need to see at any point in time.
- I get a ton of emails about Linode server issues and because of the quantity of notifications, it's hard for me to sift through them to know what one is related to my server or which of them I should be concerned about.
- I need a notification that tells me my server is not being used and it's one wasting money. I don't get that notification.
- Apart from these two, I don't really have any cons for Linode. It's great for the things I do.
March 23, 2021
I use Linode to spool up Linux environments for training, testing & development, and for hosting customer websites. Right now, my business might be small in comparison to others like it, so saying that we use Linode in one department or throughout the entire organization is one and the same. Speed and reliability are the two most important factors for customers we cater to and Linode helps us solve both of these quite well.
- New dashboard has a clean, easy to navigate UI.
- Support seems to be attentive, proactive, and fair.
- Resources, such as support docs, are a nice touch and are mostly up-to-date.
- IPv4 addresses given have been clean and pass spam blacklists.
- SSH keys feature under 'My Profile' hasn't reached its potential, e.g. if you want to add more than one user to a machine during deployment.
- A review of currently available support docs and updating them for the latest (stable) distros would be good.
March 18, 2021
We started using Linode hosting services in 2017. Moving from DigitalOcean, our motivation at the beginning was just pricing. But after four years I can say reliability and professional service is key for remaining. We still have some servers running on a local data center, but have plans to move all of them to Linode in next months/years.
We use Linode's VPS for custom web services for all customers, which are small companies. For $5 to $20 at month, we can host a web application with some hundreds of users.
We use Linode's VPS for custom web services for all customers, which are small companies. For $5 to $20 at month, we can host a web application with some hundreds of users.
- 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.
- 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.
March 17, 2021
Linode runs for many years all of the infrastructure we need for our web pages and all our public Internet-facing applications. While over the year we used other providers in additions, none were better. It's nice to be able to provision VMs all over the globe, just like we can do with the usual cloud providers, and yet due to their scale, we still feel we get much better and much more personal support when needed.
- Pricing and pricing structure.
- API access and API documentation.
- Simple yet effective UI.
- Kubernetes offering.
- I'd love to see managed DB capabilities offered.
- NodeBalancers are surprisingly expensive compared to VMs.
- VPC like GCP does (crossing sites).
March 15, 2021
We are a small start-up. Hence cost matters to us a lot. Our primary requirement is to cut costs as much as possible. Hence we mostly used open-source technologies and implemented everything by ourselves. We are running everything on a single server. We did a test run on major cloud providers like AWS and GCP. Linode's price-to-performance ratio is much higher than both AWS & GCP. Also, as seen on the internet portals, folks at Linode are pure geeks and tech enthusiasts. They have built everything from the ground up. We loved that as geeks ourselves and our journey with Linode started.
- Price-to-performance
- Cost effective
- Uptime
- Support
- Making the dashboard UI cleaner and simpler
- Launching different and diverse services
- Launching intranet-based security features
- More granular control over user management
[Linode] is used by the Open Source development team for hosting Ningx, MySQL and PHP based web applications. Several websites have been publicly hosted.
- 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.
March 15, 2021
I've been using Linode for the past eight years to run a website hosting a wiki for a mobile video game. I needed something reliable, scalable, and affordable for a non-commercial project. I was able to use Linode to run my own database, web server, and web application for less than it would have cost to use those same services individually through other providers. The storage and bandwidth allowances were also more generous than competing offers.
- Maintenance communication
- Free upgrades
- Intuitive management interface
- I've had zero complaints over the past eight years
March 14, 2021
We are a consulting agency that provides custom software solutions for our clients that are predominantly web based. All of our customer facing services are deployed through Linode. This includes all of our project tracking systems, code repositories, client projects, and supporting systems. Linode allows us to use industry-standard platforms that allow us to focus on our client's needs instead of proprietary APIs.
- Customer Service.
- Documentation.
- Competitive Pricing.
- Transparency with any service issues.
- Additional Cloud Storage Locations for faster access across datacenters.
- Managed database services, either SQL or NoSQL.
- NodeBalancers could be more robust/scalable.
- A bit more consistency with their Kubernetes system with regard to node pools.
I use Lindode to service our DNS demands, Web Presence and Mail services. Being a small company we do not need the complexities or cost of Google or Office365. With the services we have from Linode, they are cost effective and put us in control of our own data, and allow us to scale up or down as our demands require. It is not a one-stop shop - it gives our IT independence and freedom back.
- Uptime - in the 4 years I have been with Linode I have not noticed any unscheduled outages, and the scheduled ones I do remember, finished before they were scheduled to, and did not have any major impact on services
- DNS - Linodes' management portal for DNS control is simple, easy to use and understand
- Tech Support responsiveness - they have always been very good at responding to support tickets, and I have found their support staff to be very very helpful.
- Datacenter Locations - they have their Data center locations in useful places around the world.
- I would like to see a weekly or monthly Backup provided as part of the monthly fee.
- Being able to scale drive space requirements a little better
- I can't really think of a third one, honestly - they give you a Virtual Machine and allow you to do what you need to do on it, and at a reasonable price.
March 14, 2021
We host all of our software products on Linode servers. Out business creates custom software hosted on a cloud platform.
- Self Directed Management
- Uptime and reliability
- Customer Service
- More Data centres in our region (Canada - only has one)
January 28, 2021
We operate as a team of freelance professionals. Our specialisation is in Open Source and Linux technologies. Our range of projects can vary, from the mundane to the esoteric. These edge case projects leverage heavily on open source. Often they require a lot of flexibility from the underlying infrastructure platform. The nature of its offering allows us to adapt and evolve these solutions cost effectively. Excellent support, with an organisation that understands the nuances of Linux based solutions. This means we have to jump through fewer hoops. Linode is one of the primary hosting platforms for our online presence and infrastructure.
- Excellent support, fast, detailed and service oriented.
- Great flexibility in the platform for Linux based solutions, of whatever kind.
- Ping times are fast, great global presence.
- Regular platform updates and services, have allowed us to experiment with the latest tech.
- Their online terminal shell to access the host via a web interface can act up (based on locale settings). We often use ssh direct instead.
- Resource monitoring options are bare bones. Good for what it does, but need to use external, or self hosted solutions for detailed metrics as the infrastructure grows.
- A trade off for the flexibility on offer, means less "easy" platform based security locks. Example, our clients sometimes ask about port blocks. Here, customized blocks are your responsibility which some cloud users take time adjusting too. It's not really a con though, many actually prefer it, including us.
March 30, 2021
We are using Linode in many areas including company's staging/development server, email/web server, DNS, application server and email server/gateway, web server for customers. It's being used by the whole organization.
- Predictable monthly cost (easy to plan and control).
- Intuitive work flow and console (no/little learning curve).
- Provide variants of Linux flavors (best choice for those using less popular distro).
- The only IaaS that provide Gentoo distro out of the box (as far as I know).
- Good customer services, friendly and polite (far better than the top 3 IaaS providers as of 2021).
- Network performance. This is the only problem we're facing in Linode, not all nodes will faced the issue, but some nodes. In short, it's nearly 20% will be facing network performance issue in certain areas.
- Price in additional storage ($0.10/GB) is too high compare to others.
We are currently using a Linode to host an Ignition instance. It is used by several controls engineers. We are able to avoid the expense of having hardware in our facility to maintain and cool and Linodes just work.
- Uptime.
- Network speed.
- Number of available distros.
- Can't think of anything.
March 19, 2021
We use Linode throughout our organization, and we continually implement it as a solution for our customers. We use Linode both for our development infrastructure and to provide services to our clients. Using Linode gives us peace of mind, knowing that we can grow without worrying about the cost of purchasing new hardware.
- Technical support is great. Their response is clear, fast, and efficient.
- Their hardware is always up to date.
- Their documentation is very good.
- It would be great if they had technical support in languages other than English
March 17, 2021
Used for both own company web sites and for meeting clients needs supporting web their presence. Very easy and quick to deploy with many out-of-the-box options for deploying operating systems and fully configured packages. Appears to be very secure and very reliable. Much simpler to use than bigger named competitors.
- Easy of use.
- Package deployment.
- Reliability.
- Security.
- More frequent backup options would be useful.
- Incremental backup schedules.
- Larger disks on standard Linodes for media heavy, low processing environments.
March 17, 2021
We use Linode across our organization to host our web applications that provide free recorded audio lectures. We wanted a platform that would give us the ability to completely manage our instances as we want them, that would not limit what technologies we use, and, most importantly, that did not oversell their hardware capacity. After trying several other providers that failed to meet our needs in various ways, we found Linode, and we have been happy customers for over a decade.
- Uncomplicated pricing.
- Great performance.
- Great reliability.
- Easy-to-read documentation.
- It would be nice to have a border firewall and have easier private communication between instances.
March 17, 2021
I use Linode to host multiple websites and microservices used by those websites. It's given me the flexibility to easily change how my software is architected as those websites continue to evolve and scale, going from a monolithic app LAMP stack, to one that's gone to a multi-server microservices based architecture. But, at the same time, I can still host multiple other basic websites as I see fit and stand up new ones with ease.
- Ultimate flexibility my giving me a cloud connected Linux computer.
- Very simple to stand up new services (nodes, balancers, DNS, etc.).
- Insanely good documentation for a variety of things that extends even beyond doing things on Linode.
- Fremont is definitely more stable than it had been, but still has its blips.
- Admin integration with letsencrypt SSL for balancers would be awesome.
- As far as I'm aware, you still can't run geotargeted balancers across different server domains (I can't make a Linode CDN).
March 17, 2021
We use Linode as a means for developing various client services through Nginx, Mysql, and PHP base applications.
- Linode servers are easy to configure.
- Easy to expand and decrease without much trouble.
- Overall performance is great on VM machines, and easy to spin off clones.
- Great support.
- Intuitive backend interface.
- Servers maintaining email services tend to regularly get blacklisted, which makes me wonder what kind of vetting and/or response they do to spam-based applications on other VMs.
- Overall, amazing servers although recently they have had serious repeated issues with US sites which is frustrating.
- Additional locations in Canada would be ideal.
March 17, 2021
I created a website for managing operations for a karate studio. I used Linode for hosting the web and database.
- When I started searching for a hosting provider to replace what I was using at Yahoo, I looked for someone who was inexpensive and offered web and database software. Linode was selected as it met these objectives.
- Since I started with Linode, the UI and services provided have become more beneficial. I have used DNS, backup and the scripting for provisioning new servers.
- As time went on, my need to provide the service to my client diminished and I wanted to maintain a small footprint, ideally with a low cost backup so I could easily spin up the resources if I needed them in the future. This wasn't as cheap or easy as I wanted.
March 17, 2021
I use Linode to run my own LAMP servers to serve my client's WordPress sites. I choose Linode because it is the perfect balance between cost, performance, and the features I'm looking for. Even after using them for several years now I feel no need to look for a new service as they continue to impress me year after year.
- Their pricing is more fair and logical than their competitors.
- They have some of the fastest data centers I've used.
- Their build tools are my favorite among their competition.
- They lack Windows based servers.
- They lack more advanced features.
- Some of their current features tend to be shallow.
March 17, 2021
Our current use case is running a mail server for several of our domains. We've also used Linode to spin up test servers for various applications, to see if they are worth pursuing for our own internal use or as recommendations for current and future clients.
- Fast and reliable access
- Awesome technical support that is knowledgeable and fast to respond
- Amazing price points for the quality and quantity of service offered
- Honestly can not think of any cons to the services offered that we've taken advantage of.
March 17, 2021
We have used Linode for our own, and our client's hosting of game servers, websites, and static content. Recently, we integrated with Forge for automated provisioning and the integration has worked well. Without Linode, we would be needing to use other providers that don't fit our preferred billing methodology and would lack the predictability that we and our clients need.
- Servers are fast.
- Scaling is quick.
- Support is responsive.
- API is flexible allowing for nice integrations.
- Internal networking is difficult. Private network is not as private as we would like.
- Some features require enabling for all servers, instead of just a few.
March 15, 2021
We use Linode to offer fast, reliable hosting to our clients. It allows us the flexibility of a standalone server while adding features such as backups, DNS records, cloning, and other server-side management. Our organization has adopted a workflow to incorporate Linode with other server management tools to allow us flexibility and automation in hosting while maintaining full control of our clients' hosting.
- Launching and changing servers.
- Virtual private servers.
- Quick hosting setup.
- It would be nice if they had Wordpress functionality out of the box or related tools.
Linode is used by our organization. Our ERP is hosted there. We use it host software for our clients. Our website runs on it. It is cost-effective and powerful. We store our custom images in Linode at no cost which makes deployment much easier and faster. A simple and uncluttered interface makes it stand out from the other cloud hosting provider.
- Simple
- Powerful
- Scale
- Automate
- DNS & networking
- Apps
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What is Linode?
For cloud infrastructure, Linode offers Linux virtual machines and a set of tools to develop, deploy, and scale modern applications.
Linode states their belief that in order to accelerate innovation in the cloud, virtual computing must be more accessible, affordable, and simple. Their infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global markets from global data centers and is supported by what they describe as a Next Generation Network, advanced APIs, comprehensive services, and a vast library of educational resources. Linode products, services, and people aim to enable developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications more easily and cost-effectively in the cloud.
Linode states their belief that in order to accelerate innovation in the cloud, virtual computing must be more accessible, affordable, and simple. Their infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global markets from global data centers and is supported by what they describe as a Next Generation Network, advanced APIs, comprehensive services, and a vast library of educational resources. Linode products, services, and people aim to enable developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications more easily and cost-effectively in the cloud.
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1 Core | $5.00 | Per Month |
2 Cores | $20.00 | Per Month |
8 Cores | $160.00 | Per Month |
CPU, transfer, storage, and RAM bundled into one simple price. Increase storage capacity with additional Block Storage or S3-compatible Object Storage. Add instant Backups with complete independency to your stack. Ensure your applications and services are highly-available with Linode NodeBalancers. Deploy Kubernetes clusters with our fully-managed container orchestration engine.
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Deployment Types: | SaaS |
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Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
Mobile Application: | No |
Supported Countries: | Global |
Supported Languages: | English |