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What is Akamai Connected Cloud?
Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) accelerates innovation with scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products, services, and people give developers and enterprises the flexibility and support to build, deploy, secure, and scale applications more easily from cloud…
Simple, fair and fantastic support.
Linode is your friend!
Great service with only a little room for improvement
There is no place like Linode for keeping you online
Excellent Platform for Testing and Proof of Concept Work
Looking for a Linux cloud solution? Linode is worth the look
Linode--good solid cloud hosting at a decent price.
Great quality cloud hosting for unbeatable prices
No surprises in your monthly bill, a good solution for small to medium projects
Unmatched Quality at an Unmatched Price
Linode vs. Others - Our journey so far
Reliable provider with great customer service
Linode in small business
Linode for your cloud--most transparent and easiest around
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What is Akamai Connected Cloud?
Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) accelerates innovation with scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products, services, and people give developers and enterprises the flexibility and support to build, deploy, secure, and scale applications more easily from cloud…
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Akamai Connected Cloud Features
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features
- Supported: Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
- Supported: Dynamic scaling
- Supported: Elastic load balancing
- Supported: Pre-configured templates
- Supported: Monitoring tools
- Supported: Pre-defined machine images
- Supported: Operating system support
- Supported: Security controls
- Supported: Automation
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Akamai Connected Cloud Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | English |
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(366)Attribute Ratings
- 9Likelihood to Renew28 ratings
- 9.1Availability3 ratings
- 8.2Performance3 ratings
- 8.9Usability20 ratings
- 8.8Support Rating215 ratings
- 8.2Online Training1 rating
- 9.1Implementation Rating11 ratings
- 9.1Configurability2 ratings
- 9.1Product Scalability3 ratings
- 9.1Ease of integration1 rating
- 9.1Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 9.1Vendor post-sale2 ratings
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(1-4 of 4)Linode--good solid cloud hosting at a decent price.
- Customer support is always fast and knowledgeable.
- Pricing is competitive.
- The web UI is easy to navigate.
- Sometimes I'd like to be able to specify more configured options for a virtual server.
- Bandwidth out--should be less of concern these days.
- Linode just gets out of the way and lets us do our thing. I'd guess that's a positive ROI but we've not measured it in any meaningful way.
- DigitalOcean Droplets and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Hosting
- Scalability
- Database
- None unexpected - just normal hosting
- Current plans only apply to hosting
- Ease of Use
- Implemented in-house
- No issues
- No Training
- Setting up a new linode
- Deploying a server with hosting enabled
- rebooting
- Managing expected costs
- Nothing really
Great quality cloud hosting for unbeatable prices
- Fast.
- Cheap.
- Expandable.
- A little bit more support for website downtime.
- More options/variations for the cheaper plans would be great (double my CPU currently means 4x more expensive).
- Lower costs for web hosting.
- Faster hosting means better SEO, more visitors and higher ad income.
- Don't have to deal with shared hosting anymore.
- Web hosting
- Ecommerce
- Data gathering
- Data gathering
- AI
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
- Implemented in-house
- Downtime
- No Training
- Creating a new Linode
- Scaling a Linode up or down
- Backups
- Rebooting, monitoring
- Figuring out the cause of web server issues
- iPhone app
- Google Workspace
- Cloudflare
- More resources
- Faster website
- Faster web server
- More CPU power
- Less web server issues (PHP, MySQL)
Linode vs. Others - Our journey so far
- Dedicated CPU.
- Developer friendly services.
- Affordable cost.
- Detailed monitoring and analytics.
- Availability in India.
- More regions in India.
- Waiting for Bare Metals.
- Email services would be great.
- Has increased our revenue.
- Enabled us to address more client needs.
- Offers flexibility with plans to suit every need.
- Development and Testing
- Production Servers for Customers
- Managed Services for Linode Customers
- The Marketplace Apps on Linode are extremely good
- Overall experience of Cloud panel is great
- Setting up Block and Object storage are simple and easy
- So much of KB articles and extended Help articles
- Bare-metal Servers once they are available
- GPU for AI related applications
- CDN services for Websites
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
- Implemented in-house
- Getting used with the interface
- Learning to use LISH console
- No Training
- Creation of Nodes
- Server management like stop, restart etc
- Adding additional storage like Block and Object storage
- IP and RDNS management is a breeze
- Setting up backup to happen on specific date
- Moving server between different zones as the IP changes
- WHMCS
- HostBill
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- High Compute power are affordable pricing
- Competitive pricing compared to AWS
- Better IOPS on SSD for good read/write performance of database and files
- Its time for revision with cloud panel UX
- Mobile App would be a great idea
Linode Review
- Right products: The breadth of their offerings is pretty complete. Some are a little rough around the edges or don't stack up to some of their competitors' but, overall, the capabilities offered by their product offerings are pretty amazing.
- Great support: It's timely, friendly, and knowledgeable. As an infrastructure provider, they generally stay away from issues regarding your application(s) or set up but sometimes, if the stars align, you will get advice on those things as it pertains you your specific situation. The support reps go above and beyond.
- Flexible environment: I can do what I want when I want for as long as I need it. There are no fixed contract terms. I pay as I go and stop paying when I don't need a particular service or product anymore.
- Support of OSs besides Linux: I really would like to see support for other open-source OSs...most notably *BSD. Some of their competitors offer this but the competition's services are either too limited or too expensive.
- Off-site backups: Backups are kept in the same datacenter on a different machine. I would really like to see them be kept off-site (even in a different datacenter) to maximize the protection backups offered.
- Keeping documentation updated: This is a continuous battle and Linode does better than most by keeping all their docs at https://github.com so that customers can update them and initiate "pull requests" to install updates.
- Reliable infrastructure: Their infrastructure is incredibly reliable...including their network. I rarely ever have failures.
- Reliable backups: They've saved my butt more than once...and allow me to rollback failed upgrades in a few minutes with minimal loss (usually just a few lost email messages).
- Great support: This is probably their best feature. As a single-person shop, it's probably the feature I rely on the most.
I always have lots of notice so planned downtime is never really an issue for me. I've had unexpected network failures but those have usually been the result of my local ISP, not Linode.
- Email services: send/receive email, filing, spam defenses.
- Web services: individual web sites.
- Shared calendar/address books for laptops and mobile devices.
- Almost all the spam defenses are home-grown from available open source products.
- Shared calendar/address books offer a shared views of schedules and contacts -- both enterprise wide and individual.
- Personal websites offer customers ways to share information in ways THEY see fit...not ways the management (me) sees fit.
- I'm currently looking at a secondary tier of offsite backups using object storage.
- I'm also thinking about moving my considerable infrastructure around email & web services to a non-Linux OS to reduce the care & feeding that Linux seems to require.
- Because of the second item, I have to come up with a replacement for Linode-provided backups that's flexible and easy to use. Hence, the first item.
However, if I move to a non-Linux OS, the level of support by necessity will drop off. I can still ask questions about the infrastructure but I my ability to ask about OS features will decrease.
Their software was ancient (and immutable). Their support was uniformly terrible. Their cost always went up astronomically after their "teaser rate" period was over. Generally, everything about shared hosting is usually a loss leader to either get you hooked on their service or to upsell you on (WAY) more expensive products/services because what you need/want to do "isn't supported at this time"). After Linode, I'll NEVER use shared hosting again.
- Price
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
If the product isn't usable, then it's not worth ANY price...no matter how low.
I did a lot of research before going to Linode. They always came up the best in terms of quality of service and support.
- Implemented in-house
- Education: I have to become very informed very quickly about what I needed to do and how I needed to do it.
- I had forgotten some aspects of routine system administration. I had to brush up on those...and in some cases implement some things from scratch.
- no training
Violations of acceptable use are always taken seriously. I usually never know the outcome of those but I feel like they are investigated.
- The online manager provides most of the functions required to manage Linode products.
- The CLI makes it easy for me to automate management of my suite of Linode products.
- The API makes it easy to develop custom automation for my suite of Linode products.
- There are some anomalies in the way the community support functions work and are presented.
- The list of supported OS images is fairly small...although it is growing. Still, there is no support for other, non-Linux OSs/distributions (e.g. *BSD).
- Some capabilities are ONLY available through the CLI and/or API.
There used to be a separate mobile app but it's was deprecated long ago. The Cloud Manager is mobile-friendly...it's the same site with the same functionality as the desktop site.
- Linode is an infrastructure provider so "new releases" are generally in the form of new services added to their portfolio.
- I have done several OS upgrades/updates in the past.
- I'm looking at another OS upgrade in the future to an unsupported, non-Linux OS.
- More automation -- less care/feeding of my Linode.
- Better utilization of existing services
- Incorporating some new services to add some new functionality to my platform.