Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."

"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."

"The solution integrates easily."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Some of the key features of this solution are the low-level maintenance required, floating proxy service, and load balancing."

"It does an excellent job of load balancing."

"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."

"Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it."

"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway are the policies, the data store they are using, and the cloud platform it operates on."

"Microsoft has a vast variety of tools, and it blends very well."

"We chose this solution in the first place because it has access to Layer 7. I can control the requests and the content, which I can access on my network if I want to even if it's forbidden access to other external resources. If I want to monitor, for example, traffic, and apply this rule on Layer 7, I can do so. This was our main goal when implementing this application. We wanted to take advantage of the Gateway capabilities."

"We find it valuable because it is compatible with our existing Azure solution."

"Its cost can be improved."

"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."

"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."

"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."

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

"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."

"I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encountered any major issues. I might consider using API for managing DNS records, but overall, I'm satisfied with Linode."

"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."

"The graphical interface needs improvement because it is not user friendly."

"Application Gateway’s limitation is that the private and the public endpoint cannot use the same port."

"The working speed of the solution needs improvement."

"The solution can sometimes feel a little cumbersome unless you're a professional infrastructure person."

"The solution should provide more security for certificate-based services so that we can implement more security on that."

"Scalability can be an issue."

"It could be more stable, and support could be better. It would also be better if they offered more features. For example, it lacks security features. Before we used another English solution, and we realized that some of the rules were not set up correctly and passed through the Application Gateway's English controllers. But the problem, in this case, is if you send ten rules, for example, six rules hit some issues. IP address blocking could be better. The rules, for example, don't work properly. If you have one issue, one rule or another rule will not work. This sounds like total madness to me."

"The pricing of the solution is a bit high. The solution should offer different pricing systems."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Overall, it is cost-effective. They offer flat, no lock-in pricing. We also get discounts. As compared to its competitors, it is costly, but at the same time, it has many features."

"Compared to other providers, I find Linode's pricing a bit higher. Storage could be more affordable."

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

"I rate the price of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway an eight out of ten."

"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway has less price than other application gateway solutions."

"The solution's pricing is not complex. It is not expensive from our point of view."

"The solution is fairly priced."

"We use the tool's basic subscription. Its licensing costs are monthly."

"Regarding pricing for Azure Application Gateway, I would rate it at seven."

"It is an expensive solution. We have an enterprise agreement, it is monthly."

"The cost is not an issue."