DigitalOcean vs Linode
User Ratings & Reviews
Reviews are generated by real users. When reviewing a product, users are asked to assess the product’s overall quality, which includes assigning specific ratings for ease of use, value for money, customer support, and functionality.
Ease-of-Use
4.6 / 5
4.7 / 5
Value for Money
4.5 / 5
4.9 / 5
Customer Support
4.3 / 5
4.6 / 5
Functionality
4.6 / 5
4.6 / 5
Last Review Written
August 27, 2024
July 17, 2023
Pros/Cons
Pros
- What's more, DigitalOcean's articles and guides are superb and have helped me set things up with ease, time and again.
- With excellent ease-of-use and brilliant documentation, support and knowledge bases to match. There's no one else like it in the market.
- Awesome to be able to utilize resources in the cloud and a really good provider that has excellent support to give.
Cons
- Some of the features are little bit hard to use and understand. Sometimes digitalocean has some problems with some types of bank cards.
- Difficult to get performance without just paying more. With Digital Ocean, all of the above points were hit, and I feel totally control of my company's digital infrastructure.
- We faced few issues on email services. The service currently does not support email services thefore there is a need to connect the product with external services.
Pros
- Linode - an excellent product that is reasonably priced and very very reliable.
- 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.
- Very easy to start with the services. Best support from the team in the market.
Cons
- Limited services are available at least for now. Difficult to integrate with other cloud providers and services.
- 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.
- The old UI was a bit ugly, the new one still lacked a few features like bill list, otherwise it was usable.
Pricing
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Additional Info
Ideal Customer Size
Small
Medium
Large
Small
Medium
Large
Deployments
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Desktop - Mac
Desktop - Windows
Desktop - Linux
Desktop - Chromebook
On-Premise - Windows
On-Premise - Linux
Mobile - Android
Mobile - iPhone
Mobile - iPad
Support and Training
Support
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Chat
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Chat
Training
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Videos
