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Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs MinIO comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Akamai Connected Cloud (Lin...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (4th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (8th)
MinIO
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
File and Object Storage (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) and MinIO aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is designed for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) and holds a mindshare of 8.7%, up 6.2% compared to last year.
MinIO, on the other hand, focuses on File and Object Storage, holds 12.9% mindshare, down 19.8% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)8.7%
Amazon AWS16.2%
Microsoft Azure9.0%
Other66.1%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
File and Object Storage Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MinIO12.9%
Red Hat Ceph Storage12.7%
Dell PowerScale (Isilon)6.2%
Other68.2%
File and Object Storage
 

Featured Reviews

AK
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Reliability and simplicity have ensured a seamless experience for 15 years
I am not satisfied with the customization options from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) because I still haven't tried any new capabilities provided by them yet. I am still keeping it as a virtual server because it is consistent and my business is stable using it. I didn't try the new features. The main improvement I would like to see from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is the ability to duplicate the server as it is and initialize a new one with the same features. This is my main need, and I think this feature was published a few months ago, but I am not sure of this. I may often need to replicate the server and initiate a new one for some business and drop it again.
Abdelrahim-Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Provides good object storage functionalities
MinIO should provide an easier subscription model for companies that don't have a huge amount of data. Our company has a maximum of 100 terabytes of data. The solution should provide more bugging tools in the open-source version to encourage people to buy the support services. It's not an easy decision. If I go to the management and tell them that I need to buy a service, there should be an easier subscription model for companies that don't have huge amounts of data. For me, getting a subscription for 15,000 a year for a system already in production might be a bit hard. I think MinIO supports a minimum of one petabyte or 100 terabytes of data. Since we don't have such huge amounts of data, buying a subscription for the solution is a bit difficult. Hence, we're only using the open-source version for now. If MinIO becomes really crucial for our business, we could ask the management to get a subscription.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"Linode has been very reliable for us, we have had no downtime in the past year and during the past ten years I think that we have had less than 20 minutes of downtime in total."
"In summary, this is a product that meets all of my expectations for a cloud service in terms of functionality, scale, and pricing."
"Overall, Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is easy to use and has a fair price, making it accessible and straightforward, which is crucial when compared to other complex solutions."
"Considering the support response, uptime, and price, I find that the price to performance ratio is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"I rate Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) a 10."
"Putting everything onto Linode has streamlined what we do, but with minimal risk, as we have a clone virtual server ready for action."
"The most valuable features are that MinIO is open, it works on-premise, and is compatible with the Amazon industry which is great for finding compatible libraries in many languages which is very good for developers."
"The product does save time for our company."
"The most valuable feature of MinIO is its ease of use, replication, and active directory. All the capabilities are in this solution."
"The initial setup was straightforward as MinIO provided good support documentation and took a couple of days to complete."
"MinIO is easy to understand, simple to implement and provides a good feature set."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"For starters, MinIO has a good user interface. You can access it through the browser and perform operations like creating the object."
"MinIO is easy to install and use, especially for standalone installations."
 

Cons

"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"Sometimes the solution gets a little slower and sometimes it's out of coverage as well. That's the reason we lost some of our potential customers and I was searching for other clouds."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"The main area for improvement is the lack of a backup feature to the local hard disk or storage."
"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"The solution lacks documentation."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO."
"The tool’s pricing needs to improve. We also encountered challenges while deploying the tool in Kubernetes. The documentation also was not too great. We have currently deployed the solution in a stand-alone fashion."
"The developer support could be better."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"The Distributed User Interface (DUI) needs some work. It's hard to view a large set of data on the DUI. It's an issue with the DUI's performance."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees to include things like extra public IPs and backup services."
"Pricing is very good and flexible, according to the resources required."
"The monthly cost depends on your requirements."
"At this point, I'm paying more like $35 per month for a slightly bigger machine, and the backup, and the object service."
"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 solution is neither cheap nor expensive."
"Being that they are small, their prices are slightly higher than the large providers like Amazon if you compare raw computing power."
"It is quite affordable, which makes it a great choice."
"MinIO is a free open-source solution."
"This solution is open source so it is free."
"My company hasn't tried the version of the solution where we need to pay to use it."
"This is an open-source solution but I am using the licensed version."
"We use the solution's open-source version."
"We use the solution's open-source version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Linode?
I find Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)'s pricing very competitive. They never charge extra without improvements. I always receive more features for the same price.
What needs improvement with Linode?
I am not satisfied with the customization options from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) because I still haven't tried any new capabilities provided by them yet. I am still keeping it as a virtual se...
What is your primary use case for Linode?
My use case for Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) involves using the servers, specifically for servers. I am using the virtual server from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode). I have more than one virtua...
How does Red Hat Ceph Storage compare with MiniO?
Red Hat Ceph does well in simplifying storage integration by replacing the need for numerous storage solutions. This solution allows for multiple copies of replicated and coded pools to be kept, ea...
What needs improvement with MinIO?
* Rolling upgrades, vs. upgrading and restarting all daemons at the same time, which is risky and impactful. * Remove the restrictions on hostnames * Accommodate incremental expansion
 

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Sample Customers

Best Buy, Panasonic, Giphy, Marco Polo, World Health Organization, Font Squirrel
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