Item: Akamai Cloud Computing
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Linode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using Linode public cloud for various security experiments at the University of Waterloo SWAG lab. First, we assessed the benchmark of the cloud instances and scanned for default security mechanisms available in the public instance of Linode for research study purposes. We went on using Linode for processing our Kafka Stream events separately to determine its capacity and usage across our SWAG lab.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Default security updates
Efficient computing instances
Well defined admin panel to manage instances

Cons

Customer support
Estimate billing based on usages
S3 like bucket object

Return on Investment

Security experimentation process
Low cost
Scalable across teams

Alternatives Considered

DigitalOcean and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

We evaluated DigitalOcean vs. Elastic Beanstalk before Linode, which was pretty cost intensive for deploying basic machines in the cloud for experimentation purposes. So, we had to switch to Linode for cost-effectiveness and default security mechanisms built inside Linode.

Support Rating

Linode has extensive documentation and self-support a lot but getting answers to most technical questions had a lot of round trips between customer support and the tech teams. A lot of things had to be figured out on our own by doing a few analyses and self-experiments, such as KVM support on the cloud.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

DigitalOcean, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Slack

Likelihood to Recommend

Linode is comparatively affordable to Azure and, GCP, AWS. For starters experiments, I would strongly suggest Linode as the best place to begin experimentation. Linode is very cost-effective for setting up custom tech stacks like LAMP or MEAN stack to deploy applications. Additionally, the documentation was really good for self-support users.

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