Item: Akamai Cloud Computing
Rating: 10
Author: Matt Hackmann

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Linode to host multiple websites and microservices used by those websites. It's given me the flexibility to easily change how my software is architected as those websites continue to evolve and scale, going from a monolithic app LAMP stack, to one that's gone to a multi-server microservices based architecture. But, at the same time, I can still host multiple other basic websites as I see fit and stand up new ones with ease.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ultimate flexibility my giving me a cloud connected Linux computer.
Very simple to stand up new services (nodes, balancers, DNS, etc.).
Insanely good documentation for a variety of things that extends even beyond doing things on Linode.

Cons

Fremont is definitely more stable than it had been, but still has its blips.
Admin integration with letsencrypt SSL for balancers would be awesome.
As far as I'm aware, you still can't run geotargeted balancers across different server domains (I can't make a Linode CDN).

Return on Investment

The pricing for data transfer on my Linodes has saved me an insane amount of money over what I'd be charged for the same amounts in AWS/Azure.

Support Rating

I haven't needed to actually contact Linode support, but they're always very communicative about things such as upcoming maintenance or outage situations.

Likelihood to Recommend

Linode has given me a decade of great services as I've grown my little hobbyist website into several websites of varying complexity. And they're somehow still priced very competitively to the bigs like AWS and Azure, especially with regards to data transfer. If you have a small to medium sized need for vanilla servers connected to the internet by a company that'll manage the hardware stuff, you really can't go wrong with Linode.

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Flexible servers for a hobbyist developer that wants to try all the new things (on the cheap)!