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

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Linode is our outsource provider of choice for cloud processing. They provide all of the server resources we use in-house or use as platforms for SaaS offerings, apart from laptops and a very niche service provision, they are our IT hardware provider.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Configurable product offering--we can rightsize VM provisioned machines
Very competitive pricing
Responsive support team
Lots of useful guide documents available
A huge range of supported platforms

Cons

VM management interface is often changed and often not for the better
No cross-site migration capability
Limited EU data centers
Resize of a VM may be easy but requires outage

Support Rating

Linode support generally resolves the issues or provides information on how to resolve them if the issue is in-server. There have been occasions where their response could have been a little faster.

Other Software Used

AWS Backup, Azure Container Instances

Likelihood to Recommend

Very suited to our market, providing definite sized reliable platforms for running industry-standard application services on a Linux platform. We configure the servers to use Linode's offering of the latest kernel, which removed a maintenance task and ensures we have the latest kernel at boot time.

Linode is not really suitable for non-Linux offerings--you can run a Windows VM but it's all down to the user. As the name implies, Linode are very Linux centric.

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