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."The initial setup is extremely easy."
"The performance is good."
"We don't really use the collaboration features because we have only a small organization. Dropbox is valuable having the hard drive space available, and the access to be able to upload and access the content."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Dropbox is easy to set up as it doesn't require any installation, just a download."
"I can use the cloud version for storage and easy retrieval."
"Reliability is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features I have found to be accessibility and ease of use."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"The solution integrates easily."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"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."
"The only thing I have had trouble with is the ability to share files. The recipients of my requests have had difficulty accessing the files."
"The search could be made more intuitive."
"The tool must be better protected."
"I'd like to see security improved a bit."
"For us, storage is an issue. The free version is too small in terms of the amount of storage on offer."
"I would like to see more storage included and more lessons on how to optimize it."
"Dropbox could make the installation and the log of what has changed in a file easier. Showing logs could be more accessible."
"The product must improve its security."
"Its cost can be improved."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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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