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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) (3rd), 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 10.2%, up 8.4% compared to last year.
MinIO, on the other hand, focuses on File and Object Storage, holds 15.2% mindshare, down 20.7% since last year.
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)10.2%
Amazon AWS17.4%
Microsoft Azure9.9%
Other62.5%
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
File and Object Storage Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MinIO15.2%
Red Hat Ceph Storage14.5%
Dell PowerScale (Isilon)6.7%
Other63.6%
File and Object Storage
 

Featured Reviews

Julio Graham - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Support resolves issues quickly and helps in expanding storage efficiently
Their support is really good. I can ask anything at any time, and they are able to resolve issues like reinstating deleted Linodes. They include features like retaining deleted Linodes for 30 days. They offer volumes and object storage, which I can add quickly, and they are high speed. I can easily expand space for database work. Although I used to create images, I found them outdated and prefer installing new images.
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

"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."
"Support has exceeded my expectations versus AWS."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"Having a reliable partner like Linode has helped us to rapidly grow our infrastructure, and they were able to focus when we have had any kind of problem."
"I rate Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) a 10."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"Considering the support response, uptime, and price, I find that the price to performance ratio is excellent."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"If you need some S3-like solution with common features, MinIO is a good solution."
"I feel MinIO is the best solution to recommend to anyone who requires on-premise S3-compatible storage."
"I was using Amazon's S3 and nothing really seemed to work as well as this, until MinIO, the product is comparable."
"MinIO is easy to understand, simple to implement and provides a good feature set."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"Object retrieval with MinIO is much improved over the prior solution, updates are simple to apply, and we anticipate that future capacity requirements will be easier to meet."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"From the standpoint of a coder or a developer, it's a good solution that's easy to use, connect, and prepare requests with."
 

Cons

"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"One thing is if you want to scale up, then you cannot scale down."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"The developer support could be better."
"The product's security is open by default, without any SSL."
"MinIO could use a time patch on it. It could also use better documentation for some languages like Python."
"MinIO has behaved strangely in the past. For instance, the application dropped connection to MinIO."
"On Kubernetes, it wasn't as stable as we wanted it to be."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"An area that could be improved is the limited storage provided in the free version of this tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to other providers, I find Linode's pricing a bit higher. Storage could be more affordable."
"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."
"At this point, I'm paying more like $35 per month for a slightly bigger machine, and the backup, and the object service."
"The pricing model is simple."
"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."
"is a little cheaper than Google or Amazon, more or less on par with the other competitors."
"I pay $5 per month for each of three servers, for a total of $15 per month, and I normally prepay a few months in advance."
"Currently, we are at $40 a month but they have costly solutions as well."
"MinIO is a free open-source solution."
"We use the solution's open-source version."
"We use the solution's open-source version."
"This solution is open source so it is free."
"This is an open-source solution but I am using the licensed version."
"My company hasn't tried the version of the solution where we need to pay to use it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
University
6%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
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 do you like most about Linode?
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 ...
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...
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 do you like most about MinIO?
I like that if you have a problem, you can buy the home server. It is stable and robust.
 

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