Item: Akamai Cloud Computing
Rating: 10
Author: Jeffery Painter

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I rely on Linode for all of my cloud service needs, from running my own infrastructure (web, email and databases) to supporting the deployment of custom applications for my customers. Linode has always had first in class customer support, and provides the latest and greatest features necessary to keep my business operations up and running. It just works, and I rarely have to even think about it.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy dashboards for server management.
Dirt simple DNS management.
Easy to understand billing.

Cons

I don't have any recommendations for improvement.

Return on Investment

Reduced my time administering servers.
High uptime and system availability reduce time spent taking care of problems.
Linode servers help keep my business services up and running 24/7.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Web Services

I use AWS at my day job, and I find their admin tools to be a lot more cumbersome and difficult to use as compared to the Linode management interface. I also find the AWS pricing models to be complicated and harder to understand. Linode is just easier to work with.

Support Rating

Any time I have had an issue, I have been able to email Linode support and I typically get a response within minutes. They have some of the best, and most knowledgeable customer support I have ever seen in the business.

Likelihood to Recommend

I tend to use VPS (virtual private servers) because I like the ability to customize and install what I want on my servers. Linode offers very affordable VPS solutions. I know they also have prebuilt services that may be easier for people to use, but if you are a power user like myself, Linode is the best around.

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