Akamai Cloud Computing vs. DigitalOcean

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
DigitalOcean	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.	$5 Starting Price Per Month

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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	Akamai Cloud Computing	DigitalOcean
Considered Both Products	Akamai Erik Rothoff Andersson Founder in Engineering at Feeder (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing It is more user-friendly than the big three cloud providers like AWS and GCP. The interface blows them out of the water; pricing is so much more competitive—no egregious bandwidth fees like AWS. As a small startup, cutting out the overhead of ultra-complex UI and pricing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We have used both DigitalOcean and EC2 in the past, and a client is currently using EC2. DigitalOcean certainly has some attractive offerings, particularly price-wise, but it did not seem to suit our needs at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Dakota Miles Software Developer in Information Technology at FreeSpvce (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We switched to Linode from Namecheap due to poor uptime, and never had any issues with stability ever again after switching. We also cut our costs in half by switching. We compared Linode to DigitalOcean and Vultr, with the primary factor that caused us to go with Linode … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We evaluated DigitalOcean vs. Elastic Beanstalk before Linode, which was pretty cost intensive for deploying basic machines in the cloud for experimentation purposes. So, we had to switch to Linode for cost-effectiveness and default security mechanisms built inside Linode. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Compared to the big cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, MS Azure, Oracle Cloud, and co., Linode's product is simpler and cheaper. For quick and straightforward client engagements, the power and flexibility afforded by the previously mentioned vendors … Incentivized Helpful? 👨🏼‍💻 Roy Verrips Director in Information Technology at Cential (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode's offering is almost identical to DigitalOcean's, but I find Linode's customer service better AWS, Azure and Google Cloud provide all services Linode does, but provides a much large set of other features and customizations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode has a much better range of data center locations than DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean has slightly better pricing and included backups( not extra backup fees like with Linode) Incentivized Helpful? Philip Thomas Mr Many Hats in Research & Development at Freelance IT - Pitpat Engineering (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I am still evaluating DigitalOcean Droplets as their pricepoint has moved more towards Linode, but so far I am leaning back towards Linode. They also don't have the GPU machines. But they do have a wider range of options for CPU. At present if you do lscpu on Linode it lists … Incentivized Helpful? Nasib Sirohi Service Manager in Information Technology at Great Future Technology Pvt. Ltd. (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I'd say Linode's main competition is DigitalOcean, I always liked to use Linode instead of DigitalOcean, even though [DigitalOcean's] website looked more professional, and their panel was more robust. Nowadays though Linode has gotten much better but they can do more for sure. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing For us, Linode is a level above the competition. We have tried other hosting providers and found their control panels confusing, customization options lacking, and price points far higher. The ease of use alone is a huge selling point. You can login and have a new server up and … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Bowyer CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Engineering at Maple Design Ltd (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is cheaper than UpCloud, but disk IO is significantly slower. Linode and DigitalOcean pricing is on par, as are server specs. DO has more services like managed databases, but Linode support has proved significantly more helpful. Linode servers give you significantly more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We tested a few infrastructure providers like DigitalOcean, Vultr and AWS. Digital Ocean servers is slow compared to Linode. Vultr high frequency server is fast but we prefer Linode as it is more reliable in terms of uptime. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing The Linode interface is just vastly better, easier, more responsive. Pricing overall is similar, but Linode is better for short term testing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing The thing that caught my eye was the price to start with. I move to Digital Ocean because they had better options for virtual network isolation, but I came back as soon as Linode fixed the issue. There support is great and things just work. Incentivized Helpful? Arthur Furlan CEO & Co-founder in Information Technology at Configr (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I've tested many other hosting options... I have the feeling that Linode was superior in terms of technical profile, response time, and overall support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is faster, with no overselling. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode often offers the most competitive pricing on regular usage. Incentivized Helpful? Atiab Jobayer Co-Founder in Engineering at Gonitzoggo (E-Learning, 11-50 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing DO doesn't take debit card, only credit card. Not good for many people because taking a credit card in many countries has certain legal requirements that many people don't have. Plus their OS-Image storage costs money. Vultr doesn't offer resizing. Moreover, if you have a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Plus other providers. To be fair, there is little to differentiate them from Linode. AWS has been evaluated but seemed overly complex and the pricing model was too complicated. We like to be transparent with customers and Linode's pricing model (and others to be fair) offers … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode's price for performance is unmatched. The scalability and customizability of their offerings is likewise superlative. Uptime is great and they have servers in all of the places we need them. Security is on par with the rest. Their web interface is useful. Their … Incentivized Helpful? David Chmelik scientist at Self (Writing & Editing, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing In terms and conditions, Linode has the most Constitutional terms on speech. The other simply didn't, especially if in Europe. If I wanted to criticize ideas, even if not criticizing people, then non-Constitutional terms of services simply weren't satisfactory. I did use one … Incentivized Helpful?	DigitalOcean No answer on this topic
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Features

Akamai Cloud Computing

DigitalOcean

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Akamai Cloud Computing and DigitalOcean
Feature	Akamai Cloud Computing - Ratings	DigitalOcean 8.3 33 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.228 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	9.029 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	7.021 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	10.027 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	10.032 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	7.531 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	8.331 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	9.029 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	5.03 Ratings

User Ratings
	Akamai Cloud Computing	DigitalOcean
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (216 ratings)	8.2 (33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.3 (29 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (21 ratings)	8.0 (7 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (3 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (215 ratings)	8.8 (9 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (11 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (3 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

Akamai Cloud Computing vs. DigitalOcean

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