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What is Linode?
Linode helps users simplify cloud infrastructure with Linux virtual machines and tools to develop, deploy, and scale applications.Linode aims to make virtual computing more accessible, affordable, and simple. The vendor states the Linode infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global…
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$60/month or $0.09/hour
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What is Linode?
Linode helps users simplify cloud infrastructure with Linux virtual machines and tools to develop, deploy, and scale applications.
Linode aims to make virtual computing more accessible, affordable, and simple. The vendor states the Linode infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global markets from data centers around the world and is supported by a Next Generation Network, advanced APIs, comprehensive services, and a 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 aims to make virtual computing more accessible, affordable, and simple. The vendor states the Linode infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global markets from data centers around the world and is supported by a Next Generation Network, advanced APIs, comprehensive services, and a 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 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
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Linode Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English |
Linode Downloadables
- Migrating Workloads to The Alternative Cloud (eBook)
- Discover the Golden Ratio of Price-to-Performance in Cloud Computing (Infographic)
- GPU Price-Performance Benchmarking
- Understanding Kubernetes: A Guide to Modernizing Your Cloud Infrastructure (eBook)
- Cloud CPU Benchmark Report
- Cloud Block Storage Benchmark Report
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Linode starts at $0.
Reviewers rate Availability and Implementation Rating and Product Scalability highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of Linode are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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March 26, 2021
Can't Be Beat!
- Uptime.
- Network speed.
- Number of available distros.
- Can't think of anything.
- Low cost
- Reliability
- Ease to scale
- Native cache service
- Integrated firewall
March 23, 2021
Linode is the perfectly balanced VPS provider
- Incredible hardware speed and scalability
- Fair pricing
- Easy management
- VPS scaling down or up should be smoother and faster
- True billing per minute or second of VPS usage with a cheap persistent storage
- Ultra cheap VPS option for microservices
March 23, 2021
A good VPS host with room for improvement
- Most communication: Maintenance, vulnerabilities that may impact us, etc.
- Reliability: None of their data centers have burned down.
- Most of our problems have been resolved promptly.
- No U2F authentication
- No ISO mounting or iPXE scripts
- Quirky DNS+DHCP
- Outages affecting few customers are still outages. Communicate about those too.
March 23, 2021
A good choice for the budding sys admin, freelance web developer, and IT operations manager alike.
- 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 20, 2021
Linode!
- Non-nonsense and reasonable pricing.
- Great support team.
- Excellent performance on the compute and storage layer.
- The Kubernetes offering is ramping up and not yet fully featured.
- Interactions between the Firewall and Kubernetes products are not always well defined.
March 19, 2021
Linode is for you.
- Custom servers
- Easy to install servers
- Variety of OSs available
March 19, 2021
All the reasons I use and recommend Linode
- 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 18, 2021
Competitive pricing and good service quality
- Competitive price.
- Service stability is pretty good.
- Easy to use comparing to rivals
- Provide special offers during Black Friday, etc
- Provide more types of service, such as k8s cluster
- Lower pricing of some types of service
March 17, 2021
Linode delivers unprecedented value
- Good pricing
- Highly scalable
- Super helpful documentation
- Could use more specialty tiers.
- Interface isn't as friendly for newcomers.
March 17, 2021
Linode is simply excellent
- Extremely reliable.
- We are kept up to date about upgrades and their likely effect on uptime.
- They are extremely fast at fixing any unexpected problems that occur and keeping us up to date.
- Their competitors offer cheap managed services such as databases, Redis, etc. and I’d like to see Linode take on this.
March 17, 2021
Linode Review
- Right products: The breadth of their offerings is pretty complete. Some are a little rough around the edges or don't stack up to some of their competitors' but, overall, the capabilities offered by their product offerings are pretty amazing.
- Great support: It's timely, friendly, and knowledgeable. As an infrastructure provider, they generally stay away from issues regarding your application(s) or set up but sometimes, if the stars align, you will get advice on those things as it pertains you your specific situation. The support reps go above and beyond.
- Flexible environment: I can do what I want when I want for as long as I need it. There are no fixed contract terms. I pay as I go and stop paying when I don't need a particular service or product anymore.
- Support of OSs besides Linux: I really would like to see support for other open-source OSs...most notably *BSD. Some of their competitors offer this but the competition's services are either too limited or too expensive.
- Off-site backups: Backups are kept in the same datacenter on a different machine. I would really like to see them be kept off-site (even in a different datacenter) to maximize the protection backups offered.
- Keeping documentation updated: This is a continuous battle and Linode does better than most by keeping all their docs at https://github.com so that customers can update them and initiate "pull requests" to install updates.
March 17, 2021
Linode - great flexibility, great value
- Good value.
- Incredible flexibility.
- Reliability.
- Networking options on a cloned Linode can be confusing.
- Bring back discounted paying by the year.
- Increase the disk quotas for low-CPU plans.
- 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
Linode is my favorite cloud vendor
- 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
Flexible servers for a hobbyist developer that wants to try all the new things (on the cheap)!
- 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).
- 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
Cheap, Fast, Stable. Pick 2. No, pick 3!
- 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 17, 2021
Linode is the best cloud provider
- 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
Pure awesomeness, fast, reliable and cheap!
- 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.
- 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 17, 2021
Linode, our choice for more than 10 years now
- Support. Not only they're kind and polite, they are effective and helpful.
- Features. We've been 10 years with them, and always found what we were looking for.
- Uptime. In 10 years of service we haven't had any unexpected service disruption.
- Transparency. Every issue or mantainance task is published in their status page.
- Pricing of the managed service. The service is really great, but you have to pay for every VPS in your account, even for the small ones that you don't need managed service for.
- Longview graphs. The tool is awesome and very complete. Maybe it could offer more detailed granularity for historical data.
- Hardware migrations. They are properly announced and effectively done. It would be nice not having any downtime. That's an utopia, right?
- Support is VERY responsive and helpful
- The site documentation is great in helping get set up and secured
- Maintenance tasks are always well communicated
- Lacking a managed database solution (Postgresql)
- VPN solution for hybrid cloud solutions
- CDN hosting solution
March 17, 2021
Linode offers great value for money and always keeps promises with regards to performance and reliability.
- Reliable service
- Great customer service
- Great performance
- Domains
- Backup management (placing backup in other data centre)
March 17, 2021
laas - Linode as a service.
- Forward thinking, they seem to have all aspects of what you might need covered. Before you even realise yourself.
- I've used many company's like Linode in the past, note the word past, since moving to linode (8+ years) I have been 110% happy with the services they provide, literally sleep better at night knowing they've got everything covered.
- Got a question? It's answered before you even ask it, that's how helpful they are!
- I can't think of any.