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Akamai Cloud Computing
Formerly Linode

Overview

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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User Review: Linode Provides Quick & Prorated Resizing Services to Match Website Traffic Needs
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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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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

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 to edge on Akamai's distributed network.

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

Akamai Cloud Computing Screenshots

Screenshot of the interface to manage all LinodesScreenshot of the Cloud Manager used to create Linode instances, manage Kubernetes clusters, add backups to Linodes, deploy Marketplace Apps, or create Object Storage buckets.Screenshot of the fully-managed container orchestration engine to deploy Kubernetes clusters.Screenshot of Dedicated CPU instances that run on their own CPU cores. No sharing the processor with other instances.

Akamai Cloud Computing Videos

Why build on Akamai's distributed cloud computing platform?
Unlocking possibility by deploying cloud capabilities at the edge.
Building the next generation of applications. Scale instantly, automatically, efficiently, and securely anywhere in the world.

Akamai Cloud Computing Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Akamai Cloud Computing starts at $0.

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and DigitalOcean are common alternatives for Akamai Cloud Computing.

Reviewers rate Availability and Implementation Rating and Product Scalability highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Akamai Cloud Computing are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Tamer Badr, MSc MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use three Linodes, one for us to test our systems and make demos to our clients. The second Linode is for one of our clients, they are in Saudi Arabia and the last one is for a governmental organization which is a client too. All these Linodes are used as PaaS (Platform as a Service).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Linode is being used in my organisation for data services to help other businesses grow. It solves software problems related to cloud data. Linode is a VPS provider which has low cost fixed price servers paid on a monthly basis.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Linode throughout the organization to realize our ideas on blockchain ideas, from setting up staging environments, serving websites as decentralized apps (dapps), to making a worker cluster to organize data before distributing to our customers. As a blockchain startup, we often compete with high availability and low latency facing partners all over the world.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Linode's services to host multiple production and development level projects. These projects are used company wide. We host a corporate intranet resource and various custom portals for gathering and displaying information to our remote staff. We host multiple websites that run on the Laravel framework platform hosted by Apache and backed by MySQL databases.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Linode for hosting a variety of websites across different servers. We need to be able to scale up and down the server depending on the load (a few days a year we have hundreds/thousands of users, and only a handful the rest of the year). Linode enables that without having to redesign the existing site for use elsewhere. We can also spin up additional servers effectively on-demand as needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Linode as our go-to external Linux VM solution. Linode is used by various technical users in our company. The reasons we use Linode instead of other cloud companies are 1) ease of use, 2) stability, and 3) performance. Various people at our company have been using Linode since the early 2000s. I've never had unplanned downtime or lost a Linode, unlike our experience at other leading cloud providers. I've also found that the servers tend to perform better than advertised. I trust Linode.
Tanay Arora | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Linode is used by our technical team for hosting software and websites which we make. Linode is easy to use and anyone with basic knowledge could use it to host any kind of software or website with good performance, optimization, and speed. It is good to use, but the problem we get while using it to host is sometimes the server didn't respond back or stay offline which occurs a little but sometimes results in great loss, especially when we have to show work to our clients.
Paul Marclay | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We're using Linode servers in our company for different projects, sometimes to empower web servers and some other times to process tons of information.
I'm glad to say that our infrastructure very stable and scalable, I usually run scripts [which take] more than 24 hours and they run [uninterrupted.]

Chamal Ayesh Wickramanayaka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a software development firm. We have couple of web based products, we use Linode as our infrastructure. We use Linode in almost all the department from development to quality assurance. Linode gives us the server platform with very reasonable price compare to other providers. And also their support service far beyond the expectation. Honestly we are getting AWS like support without any additional cost. Superb service I have ever got. We use Linode Linux-based servers and object storage.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use Linode for our cloud hosting. We need a fast, high availability and performance based cloud hosting solution to support our agency business. Linode is the infrastructure provider that we have tested and happy with their services so far as it meets our need for a reliable cloud hosting solutions. We also like there are many options available for us to deploy our solutions and services. We mainly use API and their UI manager. Our experience has been the best compared with other cloud infrastructure providers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We run a bunch of Docker images on a Linode to handle both static and dynamic websites. A single small instance runs 10 domains including nginx, PHP and MySQL. A haproxy runs in its own Docker container on the same node and exposes websites to the internet. All other nodes are only accessible from haproxy.
David Chmelik | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Linode to be able to use Unix or strictly Unix-like operating systems (OS) on a powerful server for Internet sites. I am the 'organization' so is used by 'all.' Linode addresses the problem of access to powerful (yet affordable) servers usable for all normal Internet protocols, with high bandwidth, and with some protection against DDoS, supported by a team of experts in POSIX-based OS.
Maximilian Lacerda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Linode to maintain our SaaS online and supporting systems too. Currently we have 7 servers with Linode and it's extremely reliable, which I believe is the main point, never had a major problem in all those years, honestly, I can't recall one. It easy to use and is constantly building up new tools. Reading is also painless.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Linode is used to run all of our server systems for production and for development. Also for our email servers and for data backup purposes. Have rebuilt the infrastructure countless times during the past 7 years of use. Always a pleasure to work with the management tools and the API. Have been very happy and satisfied with our service.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Linode as the backbone of our website hosting services, which allows us to deliver top-level hosting performance to our clients while also allowing us to control costs. The ability to swiftly spin up a Linode in virtually any major region in the US and get our stack up & running gives us the flexibility to provide the resources needed to ensure client websites & services operate quickly & efficiently.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I'm using Linode to provide small compute enclaves that do localized processing that passes content to other websites. Or, put another way, it's the secret brain that runs our sites. I tend to use it exclusively, though I have users that utilize the node on it, and the service it provides is utilized by all kinds of systems. It's where I do R&D as well as production services.
Don Purnhagen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started with Linode when we ported our website from a hosting provider to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). We have added additional Linodes for various intranet and datastores. Linode makes it easy to use a VPS, with support for managing the operating system, network, storage, and other layers of the server.
Steve Aynsley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Linode VPS services for many years now for hosting various platforms and custom operations, after trying various other providers and being let down a colleague recommended Linode to me, what a difference! With regular upgrades that increase performance, full control that is second to none, and fast hosting throughout the world I'd not hesitate to recommend them. We currently have several VPS in operation, both in production and beta testing. Best by far that we've come across.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Linode in my personal web development projects and for hosting some small freelance jobs here and there. It's used to provision servers to host a myriad of small personal projects over the internet.
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