--- title: "Linode Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Linode. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Linode is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/linode-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Virtual Private Server Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/virtual-private-server/) / [Linode](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/linode-profile/) / Linode Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cloud-management/linode-profile/) Reviews # Linode User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 22 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.6/5 - Customer support: 4.3/5 - Value for money: 4.9/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 15 reviews (68%) - 4 stars: 6 reviews (27%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It has free trial and also you get 100$ free credit to use in initial stage. - Moving from shared web hosting to a VPS had a learning curve, but the guides provided by Linode along with their extremely responsive support helped me get set up and ensure I had access to the ports I needed. - I can always afford Linode and keep track of my plan and costs easily. ## Linode customer reviews Showing reviews 1-22 of 22 (page 1). ### Best cloud is Linode - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ajay S I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Actually, if we discuss the pricing and Service then Pricing is cheap but service is perfect. Most of our clients are using Linode and we always recommend Linode to clients. Our overall experince with Linode is most satisfying. Thank You Linode #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I'm using Linode for the last many years are DevOps and its reliability is awesome. Uptime, Scalability, Speed, and Pricing are very best as compare to their service, which is mind-blowing. I trust Linode and also refer to other companies, who are our clients. I have about 7 running server and all are on Linode. Overall they are the best in case of easiness of dashboard and maintenance. #### Cons Support, Once I face the issue and all of my hosts went down on the Singapore server and I was in the urgent demo so I call them on the India helpline but it's not working. They helo me by ticketing and also give me compensation. The ticketing system is good. All else is very well. #### Reasons for choosing Linode All are having their our features but AWS and Google Cloud are a little expensive and complex dashboards as compare to Linode. Digital Ocean is most likely Linode type but we are never facing any issue with Linode so we never switched. --- ### My first free 60 days experience with Linode. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I many used it to store my files in it while practicing docker as it gives high speed SSD storage. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It has free trial and also you get 100$ free credit to use in initial stage. #### Cons There was no auto scaling and very few data centers were available and only has 60 days free trial. #### Reasons for switching to Linode Virtual Box does not have VPS, we have to download it on local system. --- ### Still lacks some of the basic concepts of modern web hosting - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Joël T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for free trial - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Linode didn't just favor me in anyways. From pricing structure to technical support, it didn't find room for my business. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros There isn't much that impressed me with Linode apart from the fact that it supports cyber panel very well (VPS) and the virtual private servers are easy to install. #### Cons Things I don't like about Linode:-It's exorbitant in terms of pricing-poor client service ( they take anywhere from 1-2 business days to respond to an open ticket)-Poor or almost none reasonable pricing model.-WordPress hosting is slow-High speed servers are available in the dedcated hosting package which are very costful --- ### Affordable and Reliable, but Needs Manual Setup. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It provides simple and cost effective service to users but also lack in some where in managing fine grain security management. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros There affordable pricing and its easy to use dashboard. #### Cons It is only good for small scale business as it does not provide advance features like bigger sharks in market such as AWS, GCP etc. #### Reasons for switching to Linode They were slightly expensive as compare to Linode and I also found some videos on youtube so they helped me to setup. --- ### Linode is an excellent cloud virtual private server provider - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We run all our back-end servers on Linode now, rather than maintaining a pair of physical data centers and standing up and supporting an entire virtual server stack such as VMware vSphere. Using Linode has given us considerable cost savings over our previous physical data centers, and has simplified the resources we need to run our technology stack #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Linode provides virtual private servers using SSDs that have excellent performance characteristics for the pricing, it's important that we get the best value for money, and Linode's VPS price performance ratio is far better than its competitors #### Cons Linode is not as well known as the other big guys in this space, so it can be a hard sell to convince an large conservative organization to take a bet on the little guy, given the prevailing "no one ever got fired choosing Microsoft" attitude of some people, so it would be better if Linode was more well known and on equal footing with the big guys #### Reasons for choosing Linode Linode is very cost effective and utterly beats out the other big names on both pricing and support services, and their products are competitive, have great performance, and are rock solid reliable. --- ### Linode - an excellent product that is reasonably priced and very very reliable - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Libraries - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Linode allowed us to host our product for a very reasonable price and with very reliable uptime. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Linode allows you to install a number of Linux distributions, so you can tailor that depending on what you want and are used to. Have been using Linode for several years have found it very reliable. They have also never raised the price in those years, it has remained constant. I like everything with it, Linode Manager and Longview are all excellent products to help you manage your servers. #### Cons Linux distributions for Linode are not hardened by default, so you will have to spend some time securing your deployments. There are mitigations for this though - Linode provides the ability to create scripts to create and configure your stack - so you may only have to do it once anyway. Also at the moment, there is still no support for running FreeBSD on Linode as an official image. #### Reasons for choosing Linode Linode had great reviews, the pricing was simple and fair. I had also used Linode before in another role. #### Reasons for switching to Linode When RedHat moved from Openshift v2 to v3, it was very abrupt with little to no help (documentation was bare and useless) in migrating. Version 3 was completely different and the time frame given for businesses to move was bordered on plain rude. I really liked v2 Openshift, but this experience forced us to move away from Red Hat completely. --- ### Linode - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Pius E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My Virtual machines on Linode have always been up and every time I needed help the support has always been there for me. Support from the community, Linode team, and the YouTube videos they put up. I can always afford Linode and keep track of my plan and costs easily. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Linode is really so easy to use. I'm not a professional network engineer but I find my way quite easily in Linode. Everything is within the site, from setting a server, to creating and updating your stacks. It's not jumbled up like in AWS, Google Cloud, and Alibaba. Even as a newbie, with just watching Linode's youtube channel, you set up your services and learn as you go along. That's what I did, and it's going well. One other thing is Linode's pricing! It is by far the most affordable yet very efficient and comprehensive cloud provider out there in comparison to Digital Ocean and AWS. #### Cons Linode needs to add more easily deployable apps in its marketplace to help even more of the less technical founders and learning developers get started. #### Reasons for choosing Linode Plainly, Linode had a better price for me when getting started and testing my project. --- ### Cost-Effective, Reliable Servers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dakota M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with Linode has been great. Moving from shared web hosting to a VPS had a learning curve, but the guides provided by Linode along with their extremely responsive support helped me get set up and ensure I had access to the ports I needed. We haven't even had so much as an outage that was caused by Linode. The one time maintenance did occur it was done before we could even notice an issue! They also provide 100 dollars in credit for your first two months, giving you the ability to test their services before paying out of pocket. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Our businesses use case for servers is for websites and we could not be happier with Linode. We had hosted websites with shared hosting providers but for one reason or another, we always had issues. On the cheapest VPS Linode provides we have been able to have multiple low-traffic websites running without an incident. #### Cons The only caveat of VPS hosting at Linode I can think of is that you need to pay for backups separately and these backups only go back 14 days. You can initiate a manual backup which can be as old as you like, but if you want a more comprehensive backup solution you will need to set one up yourself. #### Reasons for choosing Linode Reputation and what Linode stood for. I am responsible for web management at my business and so I went with someone who had long-term notoriety in this space and also values that I supported. #### Reasons for switching to Linode Shared hosting simply was just too slow. Considering the price we were going to have to pay to continue with our previous host along with the random downtime and speed hiccups made us switch. Even a simple $5/mo Linode server outperformed what we had from Namecheap. --- ### Very good services at a lower price than competitors - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Gianluigi M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We deploy some micro services related to our PaaS CI/CD product. Performance and reliability are very high compared to a very cheao price. We plan to migrate more services to Linode. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Easy dashboard to manage and monitor all our active services. Very cheap but very stable and good VPS performance. #### Cons Poor LoadBalancer settings. Set up process for some services could be more easy #### Reasons for choosing Linode Best price comparison with similar VPS performance. #### Reasons for switching to Linode Try to save money --- ### Linode - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Romaric S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Linode is a better alternative for any project infrastructure. From common apps to complex websites hosting, Linode does well at it. I recommend it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have tried out a lot of web hosting solutions and Linode is my #2 VPS recommendation for businesses looking for affordable and effective VPS hosting solutions.The company keeps track of the client's objectives and tries all in its capacities to meet them. Linode's hosting technology is quite advanced.It has a variety of server locations and the server installation process is also very easy as there are documentations to avail this.The support staff is very friendly and proactive. They care about their clients as well as their satisfaction. I have seen some competitors who only care about money. #### Cons The cost for hosting with Linode is medium-high as compared to digital ocean. Sincerely, this is the only dark side of it. --- ### Best in class Cloud service - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Giuseppe N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to manage and configure all offered services. I try new manager DbaaS, and is very powerful. Certainly now with Akamai partnership, this product will have a boost. #### Cons a service such as the certificate manager of another well-known service would be interesting. --- ### Why I chose Linode for Cloud - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stanley M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered No issues experienced so far with any of my virtual servers. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Native User Interface that is all inclusive. #### Cons Feels a bit outdated with the interface for millennial users. #### Reasons for choosing Linode Recommendation from a mentor. #### Reasons for switching to Linode Cost was too high. --- ### With Linode, you can upsize... AND DOWNSIZE! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Eric M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've had excellent experience with the product and with the customer service. I've been able to easily manage a large number of servers and easily rescue a few when the need arose. Linode gives you a lot of machine for your money, including a very generous monthly network transfer quota. Their pricing model is simple, easy to understand and very competitive. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Most all Virtual Cloud Server providers have a fast, reliable platform. Most let you start small and then upsize your sever as needed. Linode is the ONLY provider I've found that let's you also DOWNSIZE your server! That's huge since you're not stuck with a bigger server than you need in case you have to temporarily upsize. I also like the simplicity of Linode, compared to monstrosities like AWS or Azure. With Linode, you get in, get it done, and get out. #### Cons Linode offers additional block storage devices which is great, but unfortunately, it's not available yet in all of their data centers yet. #### Reasons for choosing Linode Digital Ocean doesn't offer the option to downsize a server. #### Reasons for switching to Linode Both Azure and AWS have a horribly confusing point and click interface. I would much rather do my configuration on the server itself, rather than on a complicated, difficult to navigate web-based user interface. --- ### Linode: High performance services at affordable price - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Prateek J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Using Linode VM and storage services for 2 years. It comes with great performance at very affordable pricing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1. Data centers are available in almost all popular regions 2. Services are very affordable 3. Very easy to start with the services 4. Best support from the team in the market #### Cons 1. Limited services are available at least for now 2. Difficult to integrate with other cloud providers and services --- ### Servers in the cloud simple, easy and with a suitable price - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Fernando R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We have dedicated server and software as service quickly and a good prices #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros My favourites features are low prices, a clear politic of costs, and the ease to deploy a new server #### Cons I like all about this platform. It will be interesting for spanish users that they were certificated in ENS --- ### Very reliable but cheap VPS hosting - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: András P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I'm quite happy with them, did not really had any big issues or complaints in the last few years. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It was fairly cheap for a decent server and they upgraded our small little server along the line keeping the old price. The support was also pretty good, quite fast and qualified. #### Cons The old UI was a bit ugly, the new one still lacked a few features like bill list, otherwise it was usable. --- ### A great performance and Infrastructure, Great apps marketplace - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Eitan T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Infrastructure and features are great and high quality, the performance is fast, the marketplace have a lot of applications and it's a great feature. #### Cons The deployment dashboard and process is a bit techie and not friendly. --- ### Very stable, capable and good performance virtual servers - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to manage via cloud management panel, very stable with little downtime, good performance #### Cons Missing some higher security features of other virtual server providers --- ### perfect product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros it's affrodable and useful to make experiment about application or eployment #### Cons load balancing is not perfect and the product is not still perfectly scalable --- ### Reliable cloud storage at a great price - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Fabio D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Comparing to AWS the aspect that struck me most is the ease of configuration of the infrastructure and the very intuitive user interface. #### Cons currently I have not encountered any negative aspects in my experience with linode --- ### Una buena opcion de VPS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Industrial Automation - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Mi experiencia con Linode en general es buena, aunque me ha costado con algunas integraciones. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lo que más me gusta de Linode es que: además de la variedad de imágenes, puedes cargar tu imagen personalizada. #### Cons Lo que menos me gusta es la interface de panel de control. Aunque esto no es una desventaja significa, ya que los servidores son muy buenos. --- ### Service with exceptional performance and stability - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Chiara P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Medical Practice - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros we use this service to host our sites, there is a developer who manages the service for us but as an end customer we can only be satisfied with the stability and performance of the service. #### Cons who have said since the beginning that it is a more developer-oriented service, but a more user friendly interface would not be bad. #### Reasons for choosing Linode The developer suggested this service. --- Linode Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice