Good, reliable service over 12 years
January 25, 2021

Good, reliable service over 12 years

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Linode is used as our primary host for our company website, emailing and database hosting of a consumer facing SaaS product where we host a photography community. We've used Linode consistently for over 12 years to provide our business to our customers. We're using the basic VPS product from Linode.

Pros

  • Value for money.
  • Reliability.
  • Server upgrades.
  • Billing and online dashboard.

Cons

  • Managed services are expensive.
  • Slow to adopt new ideas (Docker especially).
  • No "serverless" offering e.g. Fargate.
  • Good value, in-line with other VPS providers.
  • Stable platform, I haven't needed to switch provider.
  • Occasional hardware upgrades have been helpful, I have scaled down my server size as upgrades have come, which has saved me money.
As a VPS provider, equally as functional for my needs as Amazon, Linode is less flexible (con), but also easier to use (pro).
DigitalOcean seems equally good on many aspects, maybe they are ahead on adopting new/useful technologies.
I wish Linode supported Fargate like container runtime so I didn't have to maintain as much of the stack.
In general support has been ok when I needed it, it's not been remarkable, but mostly competent.
Billing has worked well and no complaints there.
They have a help center/FAQ/wiki thing online that's been helpful sometimes.
Great as a resilient platform for a VPS provider. Good value for a basic VPS service.

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