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 Akamai Cloud Computing | Score7.9 out of 10 | N/A | Akamai Cloud Computing (formerly Linode) include scalable and accessible Linux cloud solutions and services. These products and services support developers and enterprises as they build, deploy, secure, and scale applications. | $5 per month |
 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | Score8.9 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems. | $0.01 per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis |
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| Additional Details | CPU, transfer, storage, and RAM are bundled into one price. Storage capacity can be increased with additional Block Storage or S3-compatible Object Storage. Instant Backups can be added with complete independence to the stack. Linode NodeBalancers ensure applications are available. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Compared to AWS EC2, Linode has an easier creation of services and lots of options to pre-select and get a ready VM installed in minutes. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing the relevant point that made me choose linode is the pricing strategy. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode delivers higher performance cloud servers, within an easier web interface, simpler API, and better cost-benefit. Amazon has a complex interface that many times make the customers spend much more time in order to finish simple tasks and use "AWS-terms" so even if you need … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing All the companies [and] service providers [have] some [unique] features. They [work well] but we are having [a good experience] with Linode. As compare to AWS and Google Cloud, Linode is very cheap and if we compare it with DigitalOcean then they both have similar … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I used a lot of different services, a lot of services inside Amazon AWS and Digital ocean, but I found at Linode a different way to do all what I need, without having to be worried about weird costs calculations and other things like that. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is much easier to use than AWS. The model is simpler, and configuration and maintenance is simple. But what we really like is the fixed cost. With AWS we never know how much we are going to spend. With Linode, we know exactly how much the bill will be each month (the … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I find using Linode easier to use when your use case is what you would do on an EC2 instance. I try to avoid AWS all together because of the complexity. Spinning up a server on Linode is pretty easy and clear as opposed to an EC2 instance. The charges/billing is also clear. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We had previously used inMotion's shared hosting, so when we started to outgrow that service we considered using their VPS option. We found that it would be more expensive than Linode, and not as powerful. We considered Amazon EC2, but it is much easier to get started with … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing For simple VMs or Kubernetes, Linode is cheaper and it also has consistently good performance. As long as this is what you need, you get all you'd want. AWS and GCP shine when you need their other services. Oracle Cloud was bare bone and expensive. Droplets are easy to start … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is simpler and sometimes more powerful when comparing with Digital Ocean. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing The pricing wasn't even close. With EC2 you had to pay for every piece and I was afraid of network traffic driving my costs up. The management interface was also much less user friendly for a novice user. Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Akamai Cloud Computing One of our clients was previously hosted on Rackspace, then Google Cloud Services. Their Rackspace services were very expensive and provided little in the way of migration or management. After re-engineering their deployment, we migrated them to Google Cloud Services (GCS) … Invited by the Vendor A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info | Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) We tried a few other competitors on the web hosting side of our company and ultimately decided to go with AWS EC2 instances. AWS had the most flexibility, the most choices for different types of instances, a variety of Operating Systems, an incredible infrastructure across … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | 9.5 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.3 | - |
| Usability | 9.5 | 9.7 |
| Availability | 9.1 | - |
| Performance | 8.2 | - |
| Support Rating | 9.2 | 8.5 |
| Online Training | 8.2 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 9.1 | - |
| Configurability | 9.1 | - |
| Ease of integration | 9.1 | - |
| Product Scalability | 9.1 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 9.1 | - |
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