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Overall Satisfaction with Linode
Linode runs for many years all of the infrastructure we need for our web pages and all our public Internet-facing applications. While over the year we used other providers in additions, none were better. It's nice to be able to provision VMs all over the globe, just like we can do with the usual cloud providers, and yet due to their scale, we still feel we get much better and much more personal support when needed.
Pros
- Pricing and pricing structure.
- API access and API documentation.
- Simple yet effective UI.
- Kubernetes offering.
Cons
- I'd love to see managed DB capabilities offered.
- NodeBalancers are surprisingly expensive compared to VMs.
- VPC like GCP does (crossing sites).
- Stability for our Internet-facing services.
- Cost savings.
- Flexibility to provision a handful of servers temporarily.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute, Google Compute Engine and DigitalOcean Droplets
For simple VMs or Kubernetes, Linode is cheaper and it also has consistently good performance. As long as this is what you need, you get all you'd want.
AWS and GCP shine when you need their other services. Oracle Cloud was bare bone and expensive. Droplets are easy to start with, but get expensive fast.
AWS and GCP shine when you need their other services. Oracle Cloud was bare bone and expensive. Droplets are easy to start with, but get expensive fast.
Using Linode
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using | Lots to learn |
- DNS management via UI.
- Kubernetes with its hosted management plane.
- Costing structure.
- Layer 2 VLAN.
- Regions for Object storage very limited.
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