We performed a comparison between Linode and Quantum ActiveScale based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"When it comes to the Linode Kubernetes Engine and the amount of automation it provides, it's awesome, it's a game-changer. If a process randomly dies, it could take me a while to notice that it has died, if I haven't set up monitoring. With Kubernetes, it will just restart itself using Heartbeats."
"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."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"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 technology is stable which is good."
"Workflow is easy to manage and maintain."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
"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."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"Lacks some ability to integrate with different systems."
"We would like to see a self-sufficient installation."
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Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Quantum ActiveScale is ranked 19th in File and Object Storage. Linode is rated 8.8, while Quantum ActiveScale is rated 7.6. 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 Quantum ActiveScale writes "Good performance and reliable but the setup is complex". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Quantum ActiveScale is most compared with Dell ECS, Dell PowerScale (Isilon), MinIO, Qumulo and NetApp StorageGRID.
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