Linode serves the needs of my small businesses; it's so easy to use.
July 12, 2021

Linode serves the needs of my small businesses; it's so easy to use.

Travis Siegel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Linode has been used to entirely replace our hardware in house, we now use Linode exclusively for all of our hosting needs.

Pros

  • Linode offers what you need when you need it, and their various price points mean you don't need to maintain systems you aren't using, and the fact that you can scale up or down at any time makes it a no-brainer.

Cons

  • There are times I'd like to provision a unit with specific specs (such as more storage, or more CPUs, or extra RAM), and while you can add storage easily enough once your system is set up, changing RAM or CPUs is problematic, you basically need to delete and recreate a system, loosing all of your work done up to that point.
  • Their API is nice too, but I can't find any way to do custom things with the API, such as monitor CPU usage and spin up another instance when it reaches a certain point.
  • I've also not figured out how to tie multiple instances together to serve multiple users transparently. That doesn't mean it's not available, it just means I've not found it yet.
  • With Linode handling my hosting, I can concentrate on other things I've wanted to do for many years.
  • Since creating new instances is so simple, I can spin up another instance, experiment with something, then remove it, all at practically no cost.
Linode is the most accessible cloud provider I've found. I tried others, but none of them worked for me (I'm blind and use a screen reader). Linode just works out of the box, and I didn't even need to contact support to deal with web or system issues. It works great and allows me to just get things done without worrying about whether my browser or SSH client is going to work or not, and that's a huge weight off my shoulders.
I've never had to use the Linode customer support beyond the web pages already set up for that purpose; everything I needed is either there or easily searchable on Google. Unlike nearly every other hosting company I've used, I've never once needed to put in a ticket for problems I couldn't solve myself, and that too is one major recommendation for them in my book.

Do you think Akamai Cloud Computing delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Akamai Cloud Computing's feature set?

Yes

Did Akamai Cloud Computing live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Akamai Cloud Computing go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Akamai Cloud Computing again?

Yes

Linode is well suited to organizations with light web traffic because you can have a single instance for next to nothing every month, saving all kinds of infrastructure costs, but it doesn't limit you in any way, if you outgrow that small install, you can always make another (larger) instance and replace your existing one.

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