Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."

"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."

"We can scale up and down as we require."

"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."

"The solution integrates easily."

"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 fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."

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

"The best feature is the management for the port life cycle, which automatically recycles, pulls, and scales up and down based on needs and requests."

"The platform has significantly improved our organization by enhancing productivity and reducing the time required to deploy applications."

"It’s user-friendly."

"I like the Flexibility of the solution."

"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."

"More tools are available in OpenShift Container Platform to maintain and manage the clusters."

"The tool's most valuable features include high availability, scalability, and security. Other features like advanced cluster management, advanced cluster security, and Red Hat Quay make it powerful for businesses. It also comes with features like OpenShift Virtualization."

"The usability and the developer experience. The platform has a centralized consultant that is easy to use for our development, operations and security teams."

"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."

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

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

"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."

"The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered."

"Its cost can be improved."

"The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you're an Uber-sized company then you're probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you're going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future."

"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."

"One area for improvement is that we can't currently run Docker inside a container, as it clashes with security consents. It would be good if we could change that."

"OpenShift Container Platform needs to work on integrations."

"The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer."

"The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control."

"We encounter difficulties while accessing the environment and managing the cluster. This particular area needs improvement."

"Things are there and the documentation is there, however, there still needs to be quick guides available."

"The initial setup can be hard."

"Setting up OpenShift isn't easy. I rate it three out of ten for ease of setup. We're deploying it in three phases. They're in the second phase now. The total deployment time will be five months. We expect to complete the deployment this March. There are 13 people on three teams working on this deployment."

"The monthly cost depends on your requirements."

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

"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."

"The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."

"At this point, I'm paying more like $35 per month for a slightly bigger machine, and the backup, and the object service."

"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."

"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."

"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."

"OpenShift pricing varies by region. For example, a simple cluster with three nodes in DAL-10 might cost around $560 to $580 per month, subject to specific configurations like memory and CPU cores."

"The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements."

"Its price is a bit high because it's a premium product, but as long as the business is ready to pay for that, it's okay."

"The pricing is a bit more expensive than expected."

"I'm not familiar with pricing or financial aspects. In terms of effort versus benefit, it's worth it."

"It largely depends on how much money they earn from the application being deployed; you don't normally deploy an app just for the purpose of having it. You must constantly look into your revenue and how much you spend every container, minute, or hour of how much it is working."

"The pricing is expensive for licensing."