We performed a comparison between Dropbox and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Nasuni, Google and others in Cloud Storage."Simple to share files with others."
"The performance has been good."
"A valuable feature is that it stores my files and photos. I'm satisfied with this product."
"I think Dropbox is a good option for Windows users because it's easy to use in Windows and a user can access all other products and software."
"What I like most about Dropbox is that it's very, very easy to use. It's also easy to share files through it."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The main feature that I found the most valuable is the ability to link the documents such that they are automatically taken to a page where you can review them."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its convenience, I can retrieve files online from various places. It has backup options in case something was to go wrong with my computer I can restore my files."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"Dropbox could be improved by reducing the storage price."
"The product must be more user-friendly."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Dropbox can improve by enhancing the capacity of storage in the free version."
"The tool must be better protected."
"Dropbox could make the installation and the log of what has changed in a file easier. Showing logs could be more accessible."
"I cannot edit a document at the same time as another user."
"While I feel the price being charged to be reasonable, it should either be more cost-effective or account for an increased amount of storage space."
"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."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"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."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
"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."
"Its cost can be improved."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 83 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Office 365, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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