We performed a comparison between Linode and Prolexic 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 number one thing we like about Linode isn't necessarily a service, it's their support. We've found their support to be absolutely fantastic. They've been so outstanding with their support. Every single time we call them and we ask for advice or help, they go above and beyond and it's really made us appreciate what they do."
"The simplicity by which you can handle your inventory is one of the things I like the most."
"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 most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."
"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."
"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you're an Uber-sized company then you're probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you're going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"One thing that I'd really like to see is auto-scaling node pools for their Kubernetes. I don't think that they have that. That's a huge one and would be very helpful. Specifically, what I would like is auto-scaling node pools that would scale down to zero nodes, which is tricky. That's very important for certain use cases."
"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."
"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while Prolexic 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 Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Akamai App and API Protector, Cloudflare DDoS, Cloudflare and Arbor DDoS.
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