Akamai Cloud Computing

Formerly Linode

Linode is good for admins and users with good knowledge in information technology and server management. If the user has little knowledge of server management then he will need help from experts. The good thing is there are a lot of tech gurus who have experience with Linode on platforms like Upwork and others. Linodes themselves can be used for all hosting purposes.

Linode is suited if you want a low-cost and reliable service for a fixed price. Compared to Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform where you cannot know the cost and is dependent on usage, Linode is better for controlling costs and managing services. I highly recommend it.

When the requirements are clear, using Linode is both economical and well-scalable comparing with other VPS providers. Flat pricing also means you can care less about expenses and focus more on what you plan to build. Generally, I recommend evaluating it first. But its simplicity often sacrifices fine-tuning, which should be kept in mind when experimenting.

Linode has been an amazing host for us for many years. We had tried other affordable hosting options in the past, but nothing came close to offering the service or reliability of Linode at this price point. If you need a project hosted securely and reliably, look no further. The ability to spin up new servers in minutes makes development easy and reduces overhead costs. Their generous bandwidth and hardware allowances mean you can host production level services with heavy traffic far cheaper than alternative options.

A cost-effective server is needed for a business that goes beyond basic website hosting needs (eg. additional scripting required in the background). Somebody needs to understand how to use Linux in order to set it up, but at the point, that sort of scripting is needed, that is presumably already the case!

Easy to provision and delete resources as required, allowing control of costs and reducing complexity.

Any time you want a fleet of servers, and you're happy to configure the load balancing yourself, Linode is great. If you're going to burn through disk IO e.g. heavy database servers, it's less appropriate.

It is an amazing solution when you don't need all of the enterprise functionality or cloud products offered by the major providers. This is probably about 90% of workloads.

Their customer support is honestly excellent, they respond to queries asked by users as fast as they can and provide the best solution possible. Sometimes, they even provide a refund for the inconvenience caused to the users due to the inactivity of the server. They are always willing to provide solutions for each and every kind of problem related to their server, even if the problem is not related to their service.

Development
PRD environment.(web, database)

If you are looking for a more traditional VPS, then they provide a great service.

As I saw in the 5 years I was working with Linode, I do not [see] any problems that I could not resolve using Linode services.
But maybe you can think on include a service to allow companies to send emails, SMS, and it would be very very good to have a way to run lambda scripts in different languages, lambda scripts are serverless script that you can access through an endpoint.

It is appropriate in any scenarios, because they have a lot of package to pick according to your requirements.

Love Linode as they are an all-around reliable cloud infrastructure provider that offer fast cloud server. They understand uptime and availability is important to their customers. Linode is transparent on their cloud server uptime.

Linode seems a very good choice if you need your own server but don't want to spend lots of money or dig into the complexity of things like AWS or google computing cloud. You simply get your virtual Linux box with web access that has a very reasonable capacity. I would not recommend Linode if you are no developer and want a managed version of e.g. WordPress or some other standard application.

Linode is well-suited to running mid-to-high-range servers (managed by the customer or also by them) and perhaps other services (I don't use yet) for a good price among independent virtual private server (VPS) companies, and seems to be the one that most respects the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States of America (in contrast to three major mid-to-high-range VPS competitors, some of which are in Europe so have more speech restrictions.) If someone could do okay with even lower-range VPS than Linode's nanode (smallest,) there are more affordable options but the VPS might have system resources like a server from the mid-1990s.

I believe it can be used in all scenarios. It has a nanode plan for just five dollars, this can surely host your website and small app. It goes all the way to big servers.

Excellent for when you want a solution to roll your own cloud infrastructure.

Might not be fully suited for someone looking for a full managed solution where everything is done already.

With the right knowhow for your purposes, it's great for virtually anything where using the cloud is necessary. While we don't currently have any of our Linodes set up as VPNs or exclusive cloud drives (i.e., OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.), we absolutely love it for hosting web applications and client websites.

Well suited for fast deployment when used with automation tools like Bitbucket pipelines.
Maybe not the best solution for people who are willing to pay little amount of money but have mid to large scale applications to deploy

I love Linode. It's cost competitive with the best performance for the money. Customer support is great, but I have a hard time selling Linode to companies interested in microservice architecture for a large engineering organization due to the network effect of competitors such as AWS and GCP.

I have recommended Linode over and over to people. I'd love to be part of an affiliate program.

The Linode product that we use is the best in its class that we have seen. But virtual private servers are not for everyone. Some users do not want to worry about the underlying operating system, and just need shared website hosting. It is a little more work to use a VPS as a web host, but you also get a lot more control.

Looking to deploy any Linux based application or OS, with full control from the terminal whenever and wherever you need it, Linode ticks the boxes.

Small personal projects and freelance work, specially for web development projects and web services.