LinodeReviews of linode.com

I saw these guys had 2.4 stars and dont get why. There web ui is trash because they are like half merged with Akamai, but thier SCRIPTING api is sweet, completely on par with Digital Ocean. I mean, they basically are a worse looking Digital Ocean but like $1 a month cheaper on bottom tier VPS (a linode nano is the eqilivent of DO's smallest droplet). Sounds minor but * 3 boxes * 12 months thats $36 less for the SAME service. AND, ***linode gives you promo credits!*** So, if your just getting online - that be my first stop. If its like mission critical and you have more money than backups, then maybe go digital ocean, but if you got not much money, but plan to, and want to scale - id start here. The account lockout thing is real, hostinger totally fkd me, but linode hasnt and most thier bad reviews arent from lockouts, half arent even from customers but people made at thier customers. So, I like them. I didnt get the promo code because I didnt signed through a google link, emailed support, had it < an hour later.

My websites run fast and I haven't faced any major issues with uptime.

Working with linode getting good server's Around 2 years ago I am working with them and getting things on time with high qaulity servers.

With all these negative reviews I've come to the conclusion that Linode must be the one to beat in the very competitive and often shady VPS hosting space. The acquisition of Linode by [the unpronounceable] Akamai a few years back made me nervous but not much as changed (and that's a good thing). The few times I've had to contact support they were helpful although the [in country] phone support offered by Linode before the acquisition was better. That is to say supports is now email only but in my limited experience it's responsive and fine. That telephone support has been dropped and prices have gone up is a bit annoying tho. My needs are simple, I just want straight-forward old school clean VPS with predictable pricing, everything else (per second AWS style pricing etc.) is BS IMHO for my needs. I suspect most of the negative reviews written by people flagged for fraudulent activity are probably written by people who in fact should have been flagged as such and now they're bombing trustpilot. Indeed, I came here peeved about a recent cryptic email form Linode about upcoming changes to DNS resolvers but after reading all the negative reviews (and checking out who those negative reviewers recommend) I'm thinking that Linode is still the common sense solution for my very basic needs. Also, perhaps just coincidentally, I had some issues last year with emails form my server suddenly getting blocked (no DEMARC) which cleared up a several months ago - it has me thinking perhaps these negative reviews are the price to be paid for running a clean operation? Not sure. Anyway, as an established pre-Akamai customer with regards to all the people getting flagged for suspicious activity all I can say to Akamai is: better safe than sorry and the negative reviews don't represent any concern of mine and in fact have convinced me to stick around a bit longer.

I don't know why so negative here. Linode remains one of the best and most professional providers out there. Been a customer for over 10 years. Never a hiccup in the service. Their linodes are a bit pricey for the storage, but that's because they're ssd. For cheap storage, I use their object storage which is superb compared to other providers.

I‘m honestly surprised by the negative feedback on here. While my sign up experience wasn't flawless, the rest is pretty good! We‘ve been a customer of Linode for quite some time now and have never had a bad experience. Our K8s cluster never had a problem. What we really appreciate is the rapid deployment speeds of new nodes, takes maybe 1-2 minutes max with Linode compared to AWS where it can take up to 10 minutes. Billing also works just fine. Would choose Linode any day for managed Kubernetes.

I seriously can't understand all these negative reviews, there must be something in the sign-up process. I've been a customer for many years and the service is excellent, servers are fast and costs are standard. The times I needed to contact customer support they replied quickly and were very helpful.

We were having network issues between two of their data center locations. Rather than shifting the blame like most providers would do, they performed a thorough investigation and got to the bottom of it. Here is just a small snippet of their responses: "The investigation this ticket initiated across the broader team revealed several nuances, as we needed to consider multiple factors to narrow down the issue. Our team examined various aspects, including components of our Object Storage infrastructure, tracing and analyzing requests made to your Object Storage service in Newark, and evaluating the performance of different traffic routes from the Dallas region. That said, we believe the team has isolated a component of our networking infrastructure that could be underperforming intermittently." Absolutely terrific support!