LinodeReviews of linode.com

I found linode through a small project I had done a few years ago. Since setting up my account and VPS services, I have remained a consistent customer. Their support team reached out to ensure everything could be backed up when upgrading for the spectre vulnerability, over 30 days in advance. Their uptime is amazing, and they continue to add features like their DNS and firewall services. The prices are extremely fair for the service provided, and they are an independent company.

This company offers you a free trial for you to test out their services... sounds great and all, but what they don't tell you is how much spam you will be receiving from them once you actually sign up for the said trial, and how when the trial ends and you no longer have interest in using their service, they will keep on trying to charge you endlessly, claiming you owe them money for simply using their free trial. It simply makes no sense and seriously just leaves a terrible taste in the customer's mouth. I truly can not recommend this service to anyone because of its nasty, dishonest and spammy nature and behaviour.

Do NOT get this "free trial" Cause im telling you now after your trial and you go on about your life, months later they will contact you saying you owe them money! Now obviously, I didn't reply because I don't owe them anything... couple of weeks after that, they said they were gonna send to "collections" to collect my missing payment... Hm. No. Not happening. Good luck scamming people and all the negative reviews your gonna receive because of this stupid trial STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!!!

Havent used this service for very long and I found it from a sponsor from a tech YouTuber whos promo code gave me £100 creddit for free so my review may be a tad biased but I genuinly love everything about this hosting service. Their prices are reasonable and are reasonable for developers like myself who currently only create applications as a hobby. As well as this setting up a server and interacting with it is easy to do and doesnt limit you on certain aspects like other hosting services.

The support is great, but there are too many maintenance issues, every other month there is maintenance that requires powering off our servers. Every time there is maintenance they move us from Intel Gold which works OK to a 4 year old AMD CPU which cripples our app performance. It's very frustrating, they really need to update their hardware.

If you want to have super fast compute engine with VIP level support service, Linode is the one and only solution you have. It has more options to choose and very very economical.

Well documented API, reasonable prices, great control panel and great support who responds fast and does what they can to help professionally. Wouldn't expect that from a company of this size.

We joined Linode in December 2019. The sign-up process was easy and we deployed multiple Linux VMs into Dallas, Frankfurt and Singapore. After testing we migrated our services from another provider to Linode. Everything was fine for a little while, then the issues started. There are 2 main problems on Linode: 1) System Maintenance: When Linode performs system maintenance (planned or emergency) it usually results in VMs being shutdown or restarted. Often "emergency maintenance" includes shutdown of VMs resulting in outages without notice. This happens regularly and by the time Linode issues a notice, the maintenance has already started, making it too late to do anything about it. These outages are accompanied with the following message: "We have been alerted to an issue affecting the physical host on which your Linode resides. To resolve this, the host requires emergency maintenance that must be performed immediately." 2) Connectivity Issues: Regular interruptions at the network layer results in high latency and complete outages. VMs may stay up, however they are not reachable. Emergency Maintenance accounted for 5 outages between April and August 2020. Then in September the outages started in Singapore followed by more outages in Dallas. We ended up moving Dallas to another provider and that resolved the issue whilst providing our business with stability. Then the Singapore outages increased, one of them involved a switch problem then additional interruptions in November. In December we experienced 4 outages in a week. Our customers were angry. We confronted Linode who could not provide any explanation - nothing, not even a hint of what the problem was. After almost a week with no explanation (Linode was "still waiting on a post mortem") AND outages continued (clearly the issue was ongoing and not resolved), we decided that was enough punishment to our business. We moved the remaining VMs to another provider. Problem solved. We would have moved earlier, however our VMs run a custom application that has static configuration and is time consuming to modify. In hindsight we should have moved much sooner as the pain and suffering from outage after outage was affecting our staff and customers. It's probably best to stay away from Linode at least until they get their network and hypervisor infrastructure under control and return stability to their service offering. EDIT: 12 hours after I posted this review, I received this from Linode - another outage. Connectivity Issue - Singapore New incident: Investigating Our team is investigating a connectivity issue in our Singapore data center. During this time, users may experience connection timeouts and errors for all services deployed in this data center. We will share additional updates as we have more information.