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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai Cloud Computing

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AAkamai 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 Droplets

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.

    $4

    per month

    Pricing
    Akamai Cloud ComputingDigitalOcean Droplets
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $4
    per month
    CPU-Optimized
    $42
    per month
    General Purpose
    $63
    per month
    Memory-Optimized
    $84
    per month
    Storage-Optimized
    $131
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Akamai Cloud ComputingDigitalOcean Droplets
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCPU, 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.Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.
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    Akamai Cloud ComputingDigitalOcean Droplets
    Considered Both Products
    Akamai
    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
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    AWS is more expensive and less predictable. I get the feeling AWS might scale better for huge sites but cannot say for certain. DigitalOcean Droplets seems to be on a par with Linode, and cost-wise they are very similar. I've tried using Thema few times but always come …
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    We tested a few infrastructure providers like DigitalOcean, Vultr and AWS.
    1. Digital Ocean servers is slow compared to Linode.
    2. Vultr high frequency server is fast but we prefer Linode as it is more reliable in terms of uptime.
    Incentivized
    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
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Linode has a very competitive price.
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    DigitalOcean had very bad communication both internally and externally. Vultr had good features but could not answer questions about Spectre/Meltdown with any specificity. EC2 and GCE's unpredictable costs and higher bandwidth fees make them annoying or expensive for most of my …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    The cost-benefit ratio, along with ease of use and unsurpassed technical support, make Linode our choice.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Base server options less expensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Linode vs. DigitalOcean is one of the closest competitions in the cloud computing industry that I have seen. When it comes to the two I see that the pricing is very very similar and the performance is also very similar. The difference comes with the company culture, support, …
    Incentivized
    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) …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    Digital Ocean has been significantly more reliable and much easier to work with. They are now my go-to for website and application hosting.
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    I like Linode because there's no Vendor lock-in. Azure is full of lock-in. And their VMs are so expensive. DigitalOcean is great. I haven't used DigitalOcean much, but since I already know about Linode's support and migration plans, and how they handle things when not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    We've been searching any VPS Services that match with our needs. I've been trying DigitalOcean service at one of them.
    I don't know what's wrong, but in my opinion DigitalOcean is not as flexible when I'm trying the Linode services.
    We are trying to use more enterprise platform …
    Incentivized
    Chose Akamai Cloud Computing
    AWS is more expensive (even if more feature-full, but including features that I don't value). Digital Ocean is on par, both feature and price-wise. I have been using Linode for longer without any problems, so haven't even considered changing.
    Incentivized
    DigitalOcean
    Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
    Cost is much lesser
    Interface is very easy to use
    Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases.
    Incentivized
    Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
    DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean …
    Incentivized
    Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
    Both Linode and DigitalOcean Droplets perform about the same and cost about the same. However we prefer the DigitalOcean Droplets interface, and the Cloud Firewall service is a must for us.
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    Akamai Cloud ComputingDigitalOcean Droplets
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (216 ratings)
    9.9
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (29 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.5
    (21 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (215 ratings)
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    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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