Item: Akamai Cloud Computing
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Linode for two purposes: hosting internal tools for every team and department in the company and even more important the hosting of our products (SaaS software solution).

We mainly use virtual machines that we manage on our own and build our own cluster running our software stack with it.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Performance.
Ease of use.
Affordable pricing.
Additional services offered.
From developers for developers.
Support.

Cons

Sometimes slower with features others provide already.
More European hosting regions.
Incorporated European company that makes it easier for GDPR reasons.

Return on Investment

Reducing our cost to run our business.
Increased uptime.

Alternatives Considered

DigitalOcean

We have experienced a better performance on the virtual machines and more important we have seen that Linode has a great focus on their core products and services instead of providing every new feature and technology out there. Also the support way always quick and responsive to help out with problems.

Support Rating

Almost all of our support cases have been resolved quickly and with lots of information what happened in our specific case. What also impressed is is proactive tickets their system creates when they see something going on on their site which could impact your business. Other hosting companies sometimes try to hide cases that might impact you.

Other Software Used

DigitalOcean, AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Likelihood to Recommend

If you search for a hosting provider for your own virtual machines where performance and reliability is important, Linode is the way to go. Also if you develop your own software and sell it, it's a great way to deliver it to your customers in a cheaper and better way then using a managed service. Here you have control over your own software stack.

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