We use Akamai Cloud Computing to host web servers for web application purposes. We're currently supporting multiple different clients on a single linode and are scaling towards hundreds of thousands of monthly users. Clients range from WordPress installations to custom applications written in PHP and backed by MySQL databases, all hosted on linodes.
Pros
Simple and fast interface.
Fair and simple pricing.
Continuously developers their offering adding more capabilities.
Fantastic support.
Cons
Missing functionality compared to peers, for example DigitalOcean.
Historically used to lower prices regularly to stay competitive, not so much anymore.
Not very differentiated from similar cloud providers.
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for cheaply and simply spinning up a cloud architecture for your application. It has everything you need: an API, Terraform provider, etc, that modern software companies need and rely on. If you're unsure how hosting VPS works, their support is speedy and helpful. This is a key differentiator. Pricing is very fair and competitive but middle-of-the-road. For a startup, it will suit you very well for a long time. It's a smaller provider with less reach than, for example, DigitalOcean. More tools are built with the assumption of DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, and Azure, so relying on other tools might require a rethink. It might be less of a fit if you need big-company things like a swarm of consultants with certifications.
We use Linode in multiple ways, from specialized development platforms to SSH and VPN hosts to NextCloud servers.
It is very easy to create a new VM with Linode, install a particular Linux Distribution, and then customize the environment to suit the specific needs of that application or developer.
Some of the machines that we have created as development machines have gone on to become test and production machines, or other machines have been created as almost duplicates of those development machines.
Pros
Technical Support
Ease of creation
Ease of modification ( settings, etc )
Easy to allocate IP addresses, both IPv4 and IPv6.
Cons
Some of the documentation requires some hand-holding to get started. It does explain how to do things, but sometimes finding the answer takes work.
Some of the settings are not obvious, or in locations that are not completely clear without experience.
Likelihood to Recommend
Linode provides a wide range of configurations and prices, suitable for many budgets and needs. They also have a lot of experience in providing these services for many years.
We have almost exclusively used Debian distributions for our work, but they offer a large number of other versions of Linux.
Beside "raw" distributions of Linux, they also offer other VMs containing specialized installations of a variety of applications, such as Wordpress, Drupal and Docker.
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
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
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.
We use Linode for our SME IT consulting gigs, where we customize, deploy, and manage self-hosted solutions such as Ghost and Wordpress for our clients. These gigs usually have relatively small budgets and low infrastructure complexity but still, need a high level of support and relative performance — requirements which we found Linode to be satisfactory in.
Pros
Linux VMs.
Straightforwardness.
Support
Included DDoS protection.
Predictable pricing.
Cons
Data lag in VM analytics.
Lack of memory utilization chart in VM analytics.
VLAN still coming soon to East and Southeast Asia regions.
More one-click deploy app images.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would go for Linode if the job requires a more straightforward, lean, and budget-conscious hosting solution compared to the bigger clouds like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, etc.; yet would require a more performant and reputable vendor with better support when the software being hosted is mission-critical or client-facing.
It is used across the entire organization to develop cloud computing infrastructure. It is easy and simple to deploy with Kubernetes clusters. It controls all the networking systems across the entire company to ensure that all operational applications correspond to each other effectively. The pricing of Linode is cheaper as compared to other cloud server management tools.
Pros
Data synchronization across the organization.
Controlling versions.
Cons
I have not identified any new feature that can be added.
The feature performance is reliable.
Likelihood to Recommend
Linode has given us effective services in hosting our servers. It has high-security tools that protect our information from landing in the wrong channels. It monitors the performance of all activities coordinated from our servers and gives feedback to our engineers when there is a problem with our systems. It accounts for any data that is stored in our servers as well as information released to our company for planning.
Logging improvements, metric timers, and further details made available by Longview etc.
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for spinning up an application server quickly and at a low cost, although it would be good to have reserved instances or be able to pause billing on servers that are shutdown for a period of time.
We use Linode for hosting multiple projects that require simple virtual machine environments. In particular, it is useful for some of our smaller and/or more custom projects. Its affordability, plus straight forward setup process makes it appealing when compared to more expansive service offerings like Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services.
Pros
Extremely simple setup.
Backup snapshotting as an add-on feature.
Recovery controls for systems that are inaccessible via SSH.
Cons
Web interface design is clunky.
Knowing when to upgrade VMs is often unclear.
Pricing for some features feel poorly gradated.
Likelihood to Recommend
Linode is great to have around as a long-running virtual machine for hosting small projects, proof of concepts, and as a general sandbox for in-development web services. It can also be used to tunnel TLS connections, host highly customized server environments, and serve web projects that have well-known resource requirements.
This is one platform to manage and monitor all Linux servers across our organization. It makes a single pane of glass a reality and gives us peace of mind. I like that the VPS allows more flexibility than some of the big guys for the public cloud. We use this to solve scalable and easy to deploy workloads for our dev team.
Pros
Customer service
Deployment
Scalability
Cons
More detailed walkthroughs
More easy to to plan downtime and maintenance
Gives users more status updates on health
Likelihood to Recommend
Linode is well suited if you are a Linux shop and if you are not I would recommend going elsewhere. If you are looking for a lower budget option this is also a good fit. If you are not familiar with runbooks and Linux deploys you will want to go elsewhere.
Back when we first started to use Linode, the very first impression I got was the cut on the hosting costs. The fact that we came to the understanding that we can host quite a lot of virtualized hosts on a single server, saved us a lot of hassle and money, so we slowly started to migrate to Linode, starting with 1 server, ending up with up to having more than 10 at some point.
Pros
It's mostly up! When you use other providers you'll notice that [difference].
The free hardware upgrade.
Pricing.
Cons
Never managed to get LongView to work.
Easy Container-based server setups.
Better UX in the panel.
Likelihood to Recommend
Considering the cost, Linode was always the best option, also their support actually does reply to your tickets and sometimes go a bit more ahead to dig a bit deeper to fix your own issue instead of telling you it's not their fault and you should fix the issue yourself.
If you are not into maintaining servers yourself when it comes to networking and security, you're better off with another vendor, but if you know what you're doing, there's no better option rather than Linode. [I've] tried many different vendors throughout the years but Linode is always my go-to option if the project scale allows.
We use Linode throughout the organization to realize our ideas on blockchain ideas, from setting up staging environments, serving websites as decentralized apps (dapps), to making a worker cluster to organize data before distributing to our customers. As a blockchain startup, we often compete with high availability and low latency facing partners all over the world.
Pros
Simple setup yet professional
Transparent pricing
Many regions are available
Cons
Inflexibility to customize hw specs
Too few tiers on LongView to choose from
Lack of exclusive services integration
Likelihood to Recommend
When the requirements are clear, using Linode is both economical and well-scalable comparing with other VPS providers. Flat pricing also means you can care less about expenses and focus more on what you plan to build. Generally, I recommend evaluating it first. But its simplicity often sacrifices fine-tuning, which should be kept in mind when experimenting.
