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

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Linode for hosting a variety of websites across different servers. We need to be able to scale up and down the server depending on the load (a few days a year we have hundreds/thousands of users, and only a handful the rest of the year). Linode enables that without having to redesign the existing site for use elsewhere. We can also spin up additional servers effectively on-demand as needed.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Reliability
Ease of setup
Technical guides

Return on Investment

Scaling up and down servers as required due to expected activity.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Auto Scaling

AWS whilst perfectly fine would require a fairly radical rewrite of the code that exists all ready to fit in with the way AWS works, and we simply don't have the resources for that sort of rewrite and learning how to use AWS in general as it is very complicated. Linode by comparison is much simpler to understand, however, there is a slightly longer time to scale up and down.

Support Rating

Very quick and helpful responses on the occasion I have had to use it, which is thankfully rare!

Other Software Used

GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Amazon Simple Email Service

Likelihood to Recommend

A cost-effective server is needed for a business that goes beyond basic website hosting needs (eg. additional scripting required in the background). Somebody needs to understand how to use Linux in order to set it up, but at the point, that sort of scripting is needed, that is presumably already the case!

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