CenturyLink

RATING:

3.3

(8)
Overview

About CenturyLink

CenturyLink is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution designed to assist businesses with cloud computing, server access and control, task scheduling, data backup, disaster recovery and more. Professionals can utilize the platform to maintain compliance with various industry regulations such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and ISO27001. Key features of CenturyLink include patch management, load balancing, alerts, IPsec VPN and data transfer. It lets users create cloud servers by combining various operating systems, CPU and memory or storage levels, set up alerts about utilization spikes and schedule/automate server maintenance tasks. Additionally, it helps administrators s...

CenturyLink Pricing

CenturyLink offers a free trial with paid plans spanning across monthly subscription and hourly usage. Details include: Virtual CPU - 2 Ghz+ Processor (up to 16 CPU) – $0.009 hourly or $6.48 per month Virtual RAM - 1GB (up to 128GB) - $0.0135 hourly or $9.72 per month Block Storage - $0.000167 hourly or $0.12 per month

Starting price: 

$0.12 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

CenturyLink control panel
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CenturyLink Reviews

Overall Rating

3.3

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

3.5

Customer Support

2.5

Value for money

3.5

Functionality

3.5

Most Helpful Reviews for CenturyLink

8 Reviews

Tito

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2023

Overall good products. Support and customer service is not good.

Service is great. Reliability function always good. Customer service maybe 1-3 on a scale of 1-10.

PROS

I would say most of the services offered are great and reliability is top tier. No issues with services.

CONS

We’ll support and customer service is horrid. I love there services but if you need any support it get difficult. It’s usually a call center and they don’t care too much. People and sales reps constantly change. Customer service is the worst. A simple removal of service becomes a days job to weeks or months.

Reason for choosing CenturyLink

Availability. Function. Reliability.

Bertis

Outsourcing/Offshoring, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2020

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Overall is fine

PROS

The variety of the deals and plans for internet services.

CONS

The onsite tech visits. They are not formal and lack professionalism.

Mike

Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed May 2021

Niche markets for high priced services

I have been working with CenturyLink or part of it for 20 years. It was originally Qwest and CenturyTel, and Qwest has always had billing issues. It seems the merger brought out the worst in both companies. Their customer support is non-existent, if you ever do need support get ready to spend a day on hold and being disconnected many times until you finally end up with someone who may be able to help, and then you will get disconnected again an lose all hope, I think it's their model. I often just ignore issues until they are critical because I don't have the time or patience to sit on the phone for hours. And this part kills me, no matter what number you press, what you say, who you say it to, as a business you will ALWAYS 100% of the time end up in the home call center every time you call. I have entered in our account number, said "BUSINESS" very clearly, and every time I end up in the home queue and then someone asks me every single question I just answered on the automated system.

PROS

They have an amazing service tech named [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] who is the only one I ever call because he's the only one who gets things done. Phone service seems to work most of the time, just pray you never need tech support.

CONS

It's outrageously expensive in small markets, and they are often the only game in town so they can name their own price. We have small locations with 1-2 staff where we pay more for service than larger 30-40 people offices simply because they have cornered the market and there is no competition. They also often make you bundle to "save" buying services we never use.

Reason for choosing CenturyLink

Only service available, whenever we can we are moving away from Clink.

Christopher

Arts and Crafts, 1 employee

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2021

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I have nice affordable use of CenturyLink also with some issues like the other software

PROS

The most impaction feature is the security and have a lot of good functions for all the companies or users

CONS

The load balance is sometimes difficult to understand the app development have to make a chart with references or meaning

Reason for choosing CenturyLink

It was recommended for.other user

Yoyo

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2021

Century Link is better than Xfinity in terms of pricing but that's about it

Decent, better than competitors but could be better and have more consistent Wifi speeds.

PROS

CenturyLink has no contract unlike Xfinity which is 12 month contract. And it also has 940 mbps down and up.

CONS

Wifi speeds is about 50mbps by default. If you plug in ethernet you can get to 940 Mbps. But from asking around, it seems like everyone is hard stuck to around 50mbps via Wifi no matter what. It could be the free modem they provided is just bad.

Reason for choosing CenturyLink

Chose over Comcast Xfinity's "gigabit" because Xfinity only has 20 mbps up and it's super hidden. Xfinity has all these gotchas and that CenturyLink simply doesn't have. Comcast Xfinity has too much gotchas.

Nana Kwame

Education Management, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed March 2023

It's okay but not great

Aside CenturyLink's affordability, they honestly need to improve on their service and availability.

PROS

I like CenturyLink's pricing model and they don't hike up their prices unnecessarily

CONS

For about a month, we kept on getting service interruptions and that made us lose some valuable clients

Natsumi

Hospital & Health Care, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed July 2021

Reasonable price

Overall, it is good enough to continue using it. Price is reasonable and I like it.

PROS

This software is widely used. I have been using it for more than 5 years. It is okay. I don't necessary love it.

CONS

I experience some connection issues time to time. I would like to be more stability with this software system.

Daryl

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed May 2022

It worked while we had it. I would explore other options

PROS

it worked well while i had it. liked the ease of use

CONS

Customer support is difficult. It was hard to get ahold of somebody when something went down.

8 Reviews