We performed a comparison between Linode and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I appreciate."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"It has improved my company by cutting my time to market."
"I haven't experienced any instability or downtime in Oracle Cloud over the past three years. It is scalable The support team was good. The initial setup is straightforward to configure. I rate the solution a nine out of ten with ten being the highest."
"OCI's best features are its price, databases, and Linux compatibility."
"We appreciate the fact that this solution will operate with both native and third-party applications. This has meant that we don't need to change all of our systems to accommodate it within our network."
"The performance and processing capability are excellent."
"You can customize everything according to your preferences. I've reached out to customer support many times. I highly recommend using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With the product, you have complete control over the management of your system."
"Oracle Cloud Platform has good scalability."
"The most valuable feature is that it offers several adaptors."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"Right now, they don't have multiple data centers. They have limited data centers. I am currently using the Singapore and Mumbai data centers, but I am looking for data centers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. They need to improve the availability of their data centers and partnership engagements with cloud Panda solution providers, like us."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"The AI capabilities and the power automate platform that Azure is offering seem to be way ahead of what Oracle is offering."
"Oracle Cloud is not a user-friendly tool. From an improvement perspective, I want Oracle Cloud to be more user-friendly."
"There should be more management automation."
"Portability of the VMware environment into the Oracle Cloud should be made more simple."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"The product could use some more development and maturity so it has more peripheral functionality already integrated."
"The technical support is really bad, because their reaction time is extremely slow."
"This service is very specific to Oracle and we cannot have other types of workloads on Oracle Cloud."
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Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 91 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and MinIO, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud and SAP S4HANA on AWS. See our Linode vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) report.
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