“The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server.”
“The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well.”
“The most valuable feature is the domain settings page.”
“The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade.”
They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server.
“Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer’s server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple.”
The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me.
“The cloud management panel is nice.”
“Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime.”
“When it comes to the Linode Kubernetes Engine and the amount of automation it provides, it’s awesome, it’s a game-changer. If a process randomly dies, it could take me a while to notice that it has died, if I haven’t set up monitoring. With Kubernetes, it will just restart itself using Heartbeats.”
The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade.
“The solution offers a low footprint. We don’t have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don’t have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need.”
“There is no downtime. The solution is reliable.”
“Newly introduced features advance capabilities.”
“Very good automation and very stable.”
The price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money.
The solution scales very nicely.
The price forecasting and billing dashboard by service, with billing budgets and alerts, have helped us shut down resources that were accruing costs that we no longer needed, saving us money.
“They integrate well with various other solutions.”
“Amazon AWS contains a lot of helpful services.”
“Amazon AWS has many merits, in terms of scalability, stability, and availability. I have loved using this tool.”
cons
Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find.
“When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions.”
“The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered.”
“I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode.”
“One thing that I’d really like to see is auto-scaling node pools for their Kubernetes. I don’t think that they have that. That’s a huge one and would be very helpful. Specifically, what I would like is auto-scaling node pools that would scale down to zero nodes, which is tricky. That’s very important for certain use cases.”
“It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America.”
“The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you’re an Uber-sized company then you’re probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you’re going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future.”
“The network between different servers isn’t very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other.”
“I’ve had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers.
“I’m just bugged by the charges that I’m not really able to manage.”
“I have trouble with the AWS command-line interface.”
“Monitoring still needs to be improved.”
“In terms of technical features, I don’t see anything missing. The only two points in favor of other providers are the price and local support. The main problem that we see here in Brazil is the price. It is much more expensive than any other cloud provider. Their local support can also be better. We get more support from some of the other providers here in Brazil as compared to AWS.”
“The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure.”
“The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward.”
“The invoicing procedure of Amazon AWS needs to be improved. It can be difficult to manage.”
“The solution is pretty mature.”
Pricing
“When we started with the service, the cost was approximately €5 per month.”
“The value for the price is really good.”
“Pricing is very good and flexible, according to the resources required.”
“One key difference is that pricing is very hard to come by and to understand with all the bigger companies. Their pricing models are so weird and it’s hard to figure out exactly how much I am going to pay for this kind of service. Everything is piecemeal. With Linode, it’s simple and straightforward. You know exactly what you will have to pay at the end of the day.”
“Compared to other service providers, like AWS and Google, the cost of services are much less and more affordable. We are saving about 90 percent by going with Linode versus other cloud providers.”
“The pricing model is very simple. If you have very small applications, you can use the plan which costs $5 per month. That gives you 50 GB of memory and almost 1 GB of RAM. If you need more than you have to select the next plan which is $10 per month, which has about 70 GB of data and 2 GB of RAM.”
“I pay just over £20 per month and have done so ever since I started eight years ago, which to me is good value.”
“The pricing model is very simple. I like the simplicity of it, starting at $5, then doubling as it goes up from there. That is a brilliant idea, and it is not complex at all. It is about as dead simple as you can imagine. So, if you want to double what you have, then you double your price, pay the money, and reboot. It is done. It’s that simple. You can’t beat that.”
“I find that Amazon AWS is expensive.”
“It’s my understanding that our company is charged a few hundred dollars on a monthly basis.”
“The Oracle licensing is higher than it is with Amazon AWS.”
“I think they’ve done a pretty good job with their pricing.”
“Its price is kind of okay. When we do a migration from on-premises to the cloud, we typically use the lift-and-shift model. Based on the studies that we have done, cost savings are definitely there when we moved from on-premises to the cloud.”
“The price could be lower.”
“There are many variables involved in pricing service in AWS and overall the pricing is a bit on the higher side.”
“AWS is not an expensive product.”
“When it comes to professional certification in AWS, I implore others to study hard before your exams because $300 is a painful waste of money if you fail.”
“It’s my understanding that our company is charged a few hundred dollars on a monthly basis.”
