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Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) pros and cons

Vendor: Akamai

4.5 out of 5

32 reviews
96% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) offers competitive speed, simple scalability, and flexibility with excellent global data centers ensuring 100% uptime. Users value the outstanding support and the ability to switch between Linux distributions quickly. However, there is room for improvement in cost, international server presence, role-based access control, and Kubernetes features, while support and communication regarding upgrades also need enhancement to meet tech buyers' expectations.

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PROS

Users highly appreciate the outstanding support from Linode, finding it to go above and beyond their expectations.

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) offers simple scalability and flexibility, making it easy to upgrade and adjust server configurations as needed.

The speed and pricing of Linode are competitive with higher efficiency compared to other services like Azure and AWS.

Linode's global data centers provide excellent service availability, ensuring 100 percent uptime and distributed services for failover and redundancy.

The ability to use and switch between various Linux distributions is a valuable feature, with support for even obscure and new distributions promptly made available.

CONS

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) could benefit from having more international servers, especially in Eastern Europe and other regions like Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

There is a need for a service that handles Linux security and provides additional Linux distributions preferred by users.

The lack of features such as role-based access control, auto-scaling node pools for Kubernetes, and seamless integration with backup create challenges for users.

Customer support and communication, particularly regarding upgrades and notifications, need to be improved to enhance user experience.

The cost of Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is an area that could be improved to remain competitive in the market.

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) Pros review quotes

Software Engineer with self employed

Jan 28, 2021

I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent.

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reviewer1497927

Security, Programming, Infrastructure Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 28, 2021

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.

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Rudolph Pereira

Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 31, 2021

For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great.

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RW

Director at Picosoft

Aug 2, 2022

Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution.

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AK

Founder and Developer at Little Bird Tales

Feb 4, 2021

The most valuable feature is the domain settings page.

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Hussnain Sheikh

Freelancer at SheikhLogix

Feb 24, 2021

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.

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Laurentiu Marin

CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 8, 2021

It is also important that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers. The ability to deploy on multiple servers, worldwide, allows us to have distributed services and failover and redundancy.

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KK

Operations Management Specialist at ACS Technologies Ltd.

Feb 9, 2021

Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime.

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Technical Director at HMW Computing

Mar 9, 2021

The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine.

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ME

Founder /CEO at Entropy Studios

Mar 14, 2021

The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something.

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Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) Cons review quotes

Software Engineer with self employed

Jan 28, 2021

It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security.

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reviewer1497927

Security, Programming, Infrastructure Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 28, 2021

They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful.

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Rudolph Pereira

Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 31, 2021

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.

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RW

Director at Picosoft

Aug 2, 2022

When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions.

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AK

Founder and Developer at Little Bird Tales

Feb 4, 2021

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.

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Hussnain Sheikh

Freelancer at SheikhLogix

Feb 24, 2021

Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security.

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Laurentiu Marin

CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 8, 2021

It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done.

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KK

Operations Management Specialist at ACS Technologies Ltd.

Feb 9, 2021

Right now, they don't have multiple data centers. They have limited data centers. I am currently using the Singapore and Mumbai data centers, but I am looking for data centers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. They need to improve the availability of their data centers and partnership engagements with cloud Panda solution providers, like us.

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reviewer1511274

Technical Director at HMW Computing

Mar 9, 2021

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.

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ME

Founder /CEO at Entropy Studios

Mar 14, 2021

Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has.

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