Overall Satisfaction with Akamai Cloud Computing
We use Akamai Cloud Computing to host web servers for web application purposes. We're currently supporting multiple different clients on a single linode and are scaling towards hundreds of thousands of monthly users. Clients range from WordPress installations to custom applications written in PHP and backed by MySQL databases, all hosted on linodes.
- Simple and fast interface.
- Fair and simple pricing.
- Continuously developers their offering adding more capabilities.
- Fantastic support.
- Missing functionality compared to peers, for example DigitalOcean.
- Historically used to lower prices regularly to stay competitive, not so much anymore.
- Not very differentiated from similar cloud providers.
- Was able to scale our company from 0 to hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, even with challenging scaling needs.
- Grew with our usage. Added features and capabilities as we needed them.
- Their support was able to swiftly figure things out in times of stress and need.
It is more user-friendly than the big three cloud providers like AWS and GCP. The interface blows them out of the water; pricing is so much more competitive—no egregious bandwidth fees like AWS. As a small startup, cutting out the overhead of ultra-complex UI and pricing dramatically helps. It seems to be matched tit-for-tat with DigitalOcean, and their UI is similar in many ways. DigitalOcean has more mature capabilities, even though Linode/Akamai was founded earlier. Linode/Akamai provides better price-per-performance, though, as DigitalOcean is expensive nowadays.
Akamai/Linode provides a very good price per performance. However, they used to be more competitive and fight harder to stay competitive. OVH is eating their lunch here and more cheaper cloud providers are popping up. However, that said, they do have a very strong position here. As a Public Cloud provider, their pricing is transparent, easy to understand, and fair. It's easy (and fast) to scale both up and down, so it's easy to optimize for your current needs. This has helped us stay afloat cost-effectively in times of great traffic, and swiftly scale down when the peak is over.
Akamai/Linode has a very strong history for us in stable performance. Uptime on our VPS (inodes) has been measured for years, and we very rarely have to wake up in the middle of the night due to random outages. We host web applications that are used globally by hundreds of thousands of users, so 24/7 is expected. I can't remember the last time we had downtime issues with our stack hosted on Akamai Cloud Computing.
Do you think Akamai Connected Cloud delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Akamai Connected Cloud's feature set?
Yes
Did Akamai Connected Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Akamai Connected Cloud go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Akamai Connected Cloud again?
Yes