Akamai Cloud Computing vs. Vultr

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
Vultr	Score7 out of 10	N/A	Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.	$2.50 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.

Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.

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	Akamai Cloud Computing	Vultr
Considered Both Products	Akamai 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 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? Dave Warren CEO in Information Technology at Hire a Hit Consulting Services (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing I've used a few other platforms, DigitalOcean is probably the closest, but Linode always had better backend tools aimed at geeks whereas DigitalOcean just focuses too much on blank whitespace on their control panel, while offering less functionality. 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 Linode is faster, with no overselling. 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 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? 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 Linode has a very competitive price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing We compared the performance of small instances from Azure and Amazon, and Linode not only has a superior performance (their smallest nodes feel at least twice as fast as the small nodes from Azure or Amazon), Linode's yearly costs are many times cheaper. We tested other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Juan Manuel Acuna CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at Peac Software SA de CV (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing The cost-benefit ratio, along with ease of use and unsurpassed technical support, make Linode our choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode is easier and more cost-effective than Vultr but lacks an offering around DDOS protection. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing Linode ultimately has better value for money. Not as many features/services as AWS but they do cloud computing very well. Managed databases are something we’d like to see and it’s on Linode’s roadmap. AWS nickels and dimes you for everything. We’ve also considered UpCloud, … Incentivized Helpful? Praneeth Karnena Software Engineer in Information Technology at Hallmark Solutions (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing There are giants in the cloud industry like AWS and GCP, which most businesses and corporations prefer. They offer a wide range of services. Hence they are preferred. And they offer enterprise support. They offer full control over user management, security and permissions. They … Incentivized Helpful? Erle Pereira, MBA (EntMgt) Information Technology Specialist, Digital Strategist in Information Technology at Self Employed (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Akamai Cloud Computing There are a lot of very good cloud operations. Linode, for us represents a good offering. It offers a simple way to control infrastructure, without being overly simplified. For us, it was a good median giving us the flexibility to explore, experiment and still build for scale. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Akamai Cloud Computing They're all the same, to me anyway. The difference is that Linode gives you more bandwidth transfer than the others. 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?	Vultr Brian Johnson Business Owner in Engineering at KABB Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Vultr From the perspective of the above, Vultr provides the best balance of cost vs. performance for us. Cloudways stacks a large fee for each VPS you spin up, and this quickly escalates. Linode comes closest (at least when I used it a few years ago) to Vultr, and 3 years ago this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vultr Linode: Similar pricing, changed our business over to Vultr to save credit card fees by using Crypto. Digital Ocean: Fast and reliable, same pricing didn't stay because the payment methods (Similar case to Linode) Hetzner: Good pricing, good reputation, limited locations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vultr The Linode data center in Dallas is absolute trash. Nothing but constant issues. I moved a server to Vultr Dallas and it was 1000% better. Digital Ocean is OK, but I'm baked into Vultr for quite some times. Re-architecting would be cost-prohibitive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vultr Linode is a more old-school offering. Linode pricing model and infrastructure rely on classic Virtual Machines. What we like about Vultr is that they offer the same at the front, but in the back, the machines are much more flexible and can be tailor-made to our needs, which of … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Gheorghe Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Web3box Software, LLC (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Vultr In its price range I would say Vultr is above the competition, while the "premium" providers are too expensive and don't bring significant improvement. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Vultr OVH is cheaper overall, but Vultr is more reliable. Especially with support. Even when I have issues that sometimes shouldn't be covered by Vultr they point me in the right direction so I can get things moving. Not that it happens often. I've probably contacted Vultr a total … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Niner SEO Manager in Information Technology at BRAVOG (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Vultr I just like the Vultr environment. DigitalOcean, for example, has many restrictions about the configuration of 25 ports (email server) and this is really bad for my business. Linode has had security issues in the past, someone has stolen data from one user on their platform. I … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Akamai Cloud Computing

Vultr

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Akamai Cloud Computing and Vultr
Feature	Akamai Cloud Computing - Ratings	Vultr 2.8 15 Ratings
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	00 Ratings	2.914 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	00 Ratings	2.512 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	00 Ratings	2.711 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	00 Ratings	2.813 Ratings
Monitoring tools	00 Ratings	2.013 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	00 Ratings	2.814 Ratings
Operating system support	00 Ratings	3.015 Ratings
Security controls	00 Ratings	4.513 Ratings
Automation	00 Ratings	2.212 Ratings

User Ratings
	Akamai Cloud Computing	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (216 ratings)	2.6 (18 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)

Akamai Cloud Computing vs. Vultr

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