Item: Akamai Cloud Computing
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used to build and run all of my company's GNU/Linux servers and found that Linode presented a better option. A virtual server allows me to not worry about maintaining the server, there are automatic rotating backups, and I don't need to go through the process every so often of upgrading the box. Linodes just freely upgrade every couple years. Their network backbone is also very solid, and the only time I ever had trouble with it was when my web server was hit by a DDOS attack, and the Linode people handled it automatically for me. Highly recommended.

Pros and Cons

Pros

High speed internet.
Reliability.
Handle hardware for you.

Cons

The price is higher than some of the alternatives.
I would like ARM-based servers.
They only allow one snapshot backup at a time, which makes upgrading difficult.

Return on Investment

It has replaced the occasional server purchases, upgrades and repairs into a regular monthly and predictable cost, that probably averages out to less than what we were paying before.
Having automated rotating backups prevents a catastrophic loss of data that could happen if I maintained my own box that got fried.

Support Rating

I have gotten immediate and useful feedback every time I have contacted customer support, which has not had to be very often. Their online documentation is very good.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend it for anyone wanting to own their own machine, but don't want to worry about pulling out busted hard drives or blowing compressed air to clean out dust from the vents. They do all that for you, and do so on a very high speed internet connection. Well worth moving your servers into the cloud here. They're reliable.

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