Linode - The most cost effective service with maximum features
Updated June 10, 2021

Linode - The most cost effective service with maximum features

Atiab Jobayer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

As our main product is an education platform, we need to host the website. The site being a heavyweight application, I can't use typical hosting. So we buy VPS from Linode. Linode is one of the best in the market according to our need because our platform is non-profit, so we can't afford big servers all month long. Linode gives us the flexibility to resize servers when the load increases. Our site is built with PHP and we have built a deployment cycle in our Linode, so the development process has been so [much] easier.
  • Pricing
  • Resizing Feature
  • One Click App Installation
  • Free OS-Image Storage
  • Pricing
  • Managed Database Service
  • Multiple OS options in one click apps
  • Minimizing charge
  • Resizing ability
  • Easing the deployment cycle
DO doesn't take debit card, only credit card. Not good for many people because taking a credit card in many countries has certain legal requirements that many people don't have. Plus their OS-Image storage costs money. Vultr doesn't offer resizing. Moreover, if you have a multiple app server, you have [to] spin up another server and config it to balance the load. In Linode, the load balancer is a different product. Offer's one click service.
Linode has some limitation on server upgrade to some extent for new user.s One day my site got a huge load [and] I needed maximum upgrade, which was disabled then. I called the Linode helpline and they removed the blockage in a minute. Super satisfied.
My organization is non-profit, so keeping the cloud charge low is an important factor. As Linode offer[s] instant resizing, we can upgrade the system whenever we assume that there might be heavy load and then downgrade later. This way we can minimize our cost.
Our site is an e-learning site. Students pretty much solve problems at all hour of the the day., so it is very important for us [to] stay online 24/7.
[If] you need a server with minimal pricing, for testing or something - Linode is for you. [If] you need root level permission to run your app and modify the system as you want - Linode is for you.

[If] you want one click docker hosting or [a] highly scalable system, Linode might not be the best choice. Yet you can do it by yourself, it's just not automated yet. Go for Azure/AWS