Akamai Cloud Computing vs. OVHcloud Public Cloud

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
OVHcloud Public Cloud	Score8 out of 10	N/A	OVHcloud Public Cloud offers users a large number of cloud solutions that are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. OVH states their infrastructure is set up in a simple way to enable businesses to harness the flexibility of on-demand resources to scale up from small projects to large-scale deployments.	$0.05 per hour

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.

Exact pricing depends on operating system (Windows/Linux), memory and storage size and network speed.

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	Akamai Cloud Computing	OVHcloud Public Cloud
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 The Linode interface is just vastly better, easier, more responsive. Pricing overall is similar, but Linode is better for short term testing. 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? 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? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We used many other cloud providers such as Vultr and AWS. Ultimately chose Linode due to ease of use (the old simple control panel), fair pricing, selection of services and good price/performance value aspect. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Vultr has probably the best datacenter distribution in America and Europe, and even Oceania is very well covered. Unfortunately it lacks an Indian datacenter, and performance is poor in some locations. it lacks support for some services like Kubernetes and object storage … Incentivized Helpful?	OVHcloud Verified User Chose OVHcloud Public Cloud Most notably OVHcloud [Public Cloud] has dedicated servers which are a different breed of product than Linode's flagship VPS servers, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that OVHcloud [Public Cloud] can provide a fully-dedicated server at a lower price point than Linode's … Incentivized Helpful?
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Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Akamai Cloud Computing and OVHcloud Public Cloud
Feature	Akamai Cloud Computing - Ratings	OVHcloud Public Cloud 8.8 2 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	6.02 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	9.02 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	9.02 Ratings

User Ratings
	Akamai Cloud Computing	OVHcloud Public Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (216 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.3 (29 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (21 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (215 ratings)	- (0 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)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

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