Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Red Hat Ceph Storage comparison

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"The solution integrates easily."

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

"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."

"We have some legacy servers that can be associated with this structure. With Ceph, we can rearrange these machines and reuse our investment."

"It's a very performance-intensive, brilliant storage system, and I always recommend it to customers based on its benefits, performance, and scalability."

"High reliability with commodity hardware."

"Red Hat Ceph Storage is a reliable solution, it works well."

"I would definitely recommend Red Hat Ceph Storage. It is a complete solution for cloud-native storage needs."

"radosgw and librados provide a simple integration with clone, snapshots, and other functions that aid in data integrity."

"It has helped to save money and scale the storage without limits."

"What I found most valuable from Red Hat Ceph Storage is integration because if you are talking about a solution that consists purely of Red Hat products, this is where integration benefits come in. In particular, Red Hat Ceph Storage becomes a single solution for managing the entire environment in terms of the container or the infrastructure, or the worker nodes because it all comes from a single plug."

"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."

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

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

"The main area for improvement is the lack of a backup feature to the local hard disk or storage."

"Its cost can be improved."

"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."

"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."

"The Cloud Manager interface sometimes feels slow, particularly when accessed from Asia."

"The licensing cost is excessively high. This is a significant issue from my perspective."

"Ceph is not a mature product at this time. Guides are misleading and incomplete. You will meet all kind of bugs and errors trying to install the system for the first time. It requires very experienced personnel to support and keep the system in working condition, and install all necessary packets."

"In the deployment step, we need to create some config files to add Ceph functions in OpenStack modules (Nova, Cinder, Glance). It would be useful to have a tool that validates the format of the data in those files, before generating a deploy with failures."

"What could be improved in Red Hat Ceph Storage is its user interface or GUI."

"If troubleshooting is needed, the response should be faster."

"If you use for any other solution like other Kubernetes solutions, it's not very suitable."

"This product uses a lot of CPU and network bandwidth. It needs some deduplication features and to use delta for rebalancing."

"I have not identified any drawbacks, however, the response to public platform inquiries could be faster."

"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."

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

"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."

"I pay just over £20 per month and have done so ever since I started eight years ago, which to me is good value."

"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."

"Pricing is very good and flexible, according to the resources required."

"The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees to include things like extra public IPs and backup services."

"The other big advantage is that Ceph is free software. Compared to traditional SAN based storage, it is very economical."

"The operational overhead is higher compared to Azure because we own the hardware."

"Most of time, you can get Ceph with the OpenStack solution in a subscription​​ as a bundle.​"

"We never used the paid support."

"I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"The price of this product isn't high."

"There is no cost for software."

"The price of Red Hat Ceph Storage is reasonable."