Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Kemp LoadMaster comparison

"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."

"When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I appreciate."

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

"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."

"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."

"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."

"There is a simplicity to the setup and configuration."

"Managing and maintaining multiple servers is done in a single place."

"When the templates are used, there is not much left to configure and they just work!"

"The feature I find most valuable is load balancing with different algorithms."

"We really like the performance of this solution."

"The DNS Load Balancer makes it so that I don't have to worry about site failures."

"When you configure the listening services, you can implement a lot of security features like the Edge Security Pack that intercepts the requests and processes those before they are sent to the real servers."

"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."

"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."

"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."

"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."

"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."

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

"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."

"Our primary concern is always the latency."

"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."

"If you want logging for SMTP traffic, you have to enable ESP, which requires you to define allowed IP addresses. That’s irritating, to say the least."

"The product is really good as-is out of the box. If there is one thing I would change is to have the license file not be coupled with the MAC address of the device. This is actually not really useful in a virtual environment where if you have a single VM with KEMP LoadMaster and you have not set up static MAC Address, if you, for example, recreate the VM and just load the disk file on a new VM it will get new MAC address and the NLB will not work as it will not see a proper license."

"There are some challenges with updates on certain models that don't have a few features."

"UI is very basic and unattractive."

"When we go serverless, we may again have to revisit this because the configuration needs to be changed. With this change, we can run into a lot of other configurations that we haven't got into, which involve additional expenses. It would be challenging to convince management to buy at that price point. It would be a balancing act of justifying that expense and the value, that is, how it is going to save a bit of time and make our platform secure. It can have better configuration ability. A lot of iterations happen when we have multiple servers pointing to the same domain. If we do not orchestrate carefully, it gets into a loop, which takes away the precious time of the user who is trying to subscribe to a service. It takes a little longer time to realize services as well as web pages."

"The only thing I have struggled with is setting up automatic backups."

"Several elements of the GUI need work. For example, if you have many content switches, it’s difficult to find the ones you need. And where is the search feature?"

"I would like to see more automation and control of overactive and inactive resources. If I could schedule these around our updates then it would be all automated. I would like to set up an automated script to coincide with the scripts I use to update resources and servers."

"Currently, we are at $40 a month but they have costly solutions as well."

"is a little cheaper than Google or Amazon, more or less on par with the other competitors."

"The pricing model is simple."

"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."

"When we started with the service, the cost was approximately €5 per month."

"It is quite affordable, which makes it a great choice."

"Pricing-wise, I find it simple in that they give you a monthly fee, but they also charge it hourly. So, if you are using the service for a small part of the month, then you are only paying for that small amount instead of a whole month, like with other providers. It is a flat monthly fee if you use the service for the entire month. It just makes things so simple. Because they are focusing on Linux, you don't have to worry about licensing costs of Windows and things like that. So, the price that they give you is the price that you need to pay each month. I just find it so simple compared to the likes of AWS and Azure. It is nice, easy, and predictable. I know exactly what I am going to be paying each month and what resources I get for that price."

"The monthly cost depends on your requirements."

"Any decent product will cost money and if you want great support and a great product, then you will want to spend the money on it."

"The pricing is alright and we pay a monthly licensing fee"

"From a cost perspective, Kemp is very competitive and is not hard to justify by any means."

"The setup cost and pricing plan is reasonable and will ultimately give you a worthy return."

"The price of the solution is cheap."

"It has a very attractive ratio of price/performance."

"KEMP gives away free trials for 30 days. This can be stretched if you want. During the test, you will have access to KEMP support.​"

"Licensing is yearly and I am going to guess that it is CAN $2000.00."