Linode, Linux nodes in the cloud done right!
May 06, 2021
Linode, Linux nodes in the cloud done right!
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Linode
Niche Development utilizes Linode virtual servers to provide web and email services for the company. We started using the mail services a couple years ago, and migration of our web services from AWS has just begun as a cost-saving procedure.
- Cost. Linode offers many of the same services as "other" cloud providers, but does so at a much reduced rate.
- Linux. I have been a heavy Linux advocate since 1999, and Linode fits that profile as well.
- Familiarized operation. Working with my Linode VMs feels more like working on a physical or VM server than I have found with "other" cloud providers, and the Linode web console provides the information I need to manage those devices without overwhelmingly cluttering screens with multitudes of options that don't apply to those needs.
- I would like an option to add more memory (such as 1G) to an existing VM instead of increasing the entire VM to the next level. For example, I have a Linode 2GB system with 50G of storage. That VM has plenty of storage, but could use another 1G of RAM, however it really doesn't need to be bumped to the 4GB plan as the extra 30G of storage, and even some of extra 2G of RAM that comes with that plan would not be utilized. Allowing a "partial" increase of of those two options would be great if available.
- ROI is far better with Linode's options versus "other" cloud providers.
- The VMs (well, as least mine), are Linux-based, which has proven to be more stable, easier to manage, more secure, have less overhead and more cost-effective to operate than Windows servers, so hands down that is a win-win option.
- The VMs are quick to deploy, set up and configure for your needs without having several hoops that need to be jumped through, as is the case with some of the "other" could service providers.
I chose Linode over Amazon mainly because it was a better fit for my business, and was cheaper, but also because I enjoy backing smaller Linux-driven companies over "big tech" companies, many of whom are already degrading our country with their corporate policies and pay-outs to politicians and organizations that are in fact detrimental to our country's freedoms, ethics, growth and overall stance in world power that our fathers/mothers and forefathers/mothers have fought and died for.
I think your question answers itself... Linode "provides high performance cloud infrastructure, support, and more at an affordable price."
By decreasing the cost of cloud VMs to half or more that the "other" cloud service providers charge, as well as offering stable VMs while at the same time clamping down on those that try to use Linode's services to stand up a quick VM for use in email spamming, or intrusive (and usually illegal) hacking of other's servers, I spend far less time dealing with issues needing "cleanup" of an IP address using Linode's servers than I would using someone else's IP addresses (Digital Ocean's for example, they are "home" to spammers and hackers, and I have entire CIDRs belonging to Digital Ocean blocked in my firewalls). That alone (not having to clean up an IPs "reputation" with RBLs, etc.) is money well spent. Thank you Linode!!
By decreasing the cost of cloud VMs to half or more that the "other" cloud service providers charge, as well as offering stable VMs while at the same time clamping down on those that try to use Linode's services to stand up a quick VM for use in email spamming, or intrusive (and usually illegal) hacking of other's servers, I spend far less time dealing with issues needing "cleanup" of an IP address using Linode's servers than I would using someone else's IP addresses (Digital Ocean's for example, they are "home" to spammers and hackers, and I have entire CIDRs belonging to Digital Ocean blocked in my firewalls). That alone (not having to clean up an IPs "reputation" with RBLs, etc.) is money well spent. Thank you Linode!!
In two years I can't recall but a couple or few times that VMs had to be rebooted or have maintenance outages that were not of my doing, and every one of them were WAY under the proposed outage times, and always at hours that are perfectly fine and reasonable for most anyone in IT.
I've actually experienced "unexpected" outages of services with Amazon AWS, whereas I have never had that problem with Linode. Every one of the outages were planned for, and their duration was far less than proposed.
I've actually experienced "unexpected" outages of services with Amazon AWS, whereas I have never had that problem with Linode. Every one of the outages were planned for, and their duration was far less than proposed.