Akamai Connected Cloud (formerly Linode) Reviews & Product Details

Akamai is obviously still making investments in the platform. It's significant that they frequently release new features and integrations. I appreciate that the platform is developing and that, when my needs change, I'll have access to the newest tools and technologies. Resources and development appear to be benefiting from Akamai's acquisition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest, I've been a little confused by the whole Linode-to-Akamai situation. While things seem to be settling down now, there was a period where it felt like things were in flux. Just a little bit of a bumpy ride during the transition, and I'm hoping things are more stable now. It would be beneficial to have more precise communication regarding the long-term goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In fact, the documentation is useful when I do have a problem, which is not often. It is thorough, well-written, and searchable. In addition, the community forums are lively and teeming with helpful individuals. It's wonderful to know that I can quickly get back on track if I run into problems thanks to the resources offered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Even if they're making improvements, they're still lagging behind the industry titans like AWS and Azure in some areas. In particular, some of the more specialized or sophisticated cloud services aren't as developed or all-inclusive. There may be certain gaps if you rely significantly on highly specialized managed services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is quick and easy to deploy linodes, hosted k8s clusters, hosted DB services and node balancers quickly and easily using integration tools like OpenTofu. Our app deploys multiple times per day with git actions, and we couldnt be happier with our argocd setup. Support was quick to help with the few issues we've run into. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The VPC offerings are still a bit young, but growing. It would be nice to have route table control (for our interoffice VPN setup), internal only managed k8s and db services. it would be nice to have managed or canned firewall rules to block connection from nefarious sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linode is very affordable and simple to use compared to using other cloud providers. The dashboard is quite good and regarding performance, Linode was consistently better than competitors, especially in handling loads according to benchmark tests. Also the flexibility to configure everything at the base level without unnecessary complexity is huge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linode's built-in resource monitoring is pretty basic. Hence I mostly use external tools for deeper insights as my infrastructure scales. The web-based terminal can be flaky due to locale settings, so direct SSH access is what I normally use. Also, full email hosting and truly pay-as-you-go blob storage would make the platform even more competitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linode's upfront, transparent pricing allows you to instantly guage the costs of your projects. This is particularly useful when collaborating with businesses who are sceptical of the cost of cloud technology, and has enabled us to ease these nerves, whilst providing a service that is equal class to other IaaS providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linode does fit my business's needs in the exact ways other providers do not. However, the range of products available does not yet match the likes of Azure, AWS etc.

I'm confident that this gap will close: global availability has vastly improved and I am hopeful that additional product offerings will continue to be rolled out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

admin panel is extremely well defined and adding a service or managing instances is as simple as can be. They have servers that are highly accessible and offers a secure backup for our sensitive business data. Also love the team behind where they are always available to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing major that I found, their service fits our needs well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how simple it is to use and how it empowers me to put multiple websites out into the world for my businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Don't know much about akamai when linode was local to my city and I visited head quarters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the affordability and ease of use of the dashboard. I ran the yabs.sh benchmark on Digital Ocean, Vultr and Akamai\Linode and Akamai\Linode came out on top. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

2 challenges I faced with Linode -

1 - You can't "stack" node balancers, once you reach the 10k limit it's then up to your DNS server to round robin distribute the traffic, which is imperfect as a load balancer.

2 - There's no way to scale up\down a database cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very simple to use and developer friendly, Strong security is something I like most Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No so good competitive pricing, can make less Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linode is one of the best and easy to use cloud provider i have ever used its UI is simple and the cost of service is best in the market.

We use linode as our dev and staging enviroment which save a lot of cost for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are few type of services which are not provided by linode as other service provider does.

Other then this there is dislike i have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.