Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs HashiCorp Nomad comparison

The compared Akamai and HashiCorp solutions aren't in the same category. Akamai is ranked #3 in ISI , with an average rating of 9.1, and holds a 7.0% mindshare in the category. HashiCorp is ranked #16 in CM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of HashiCorp users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Connected Cloud (Lin...

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (3rd), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (9th)

HashiCorp Nomad

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Management (16th)

Mindshare comparison

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) and HashiCorp Nomad aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is designed for Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) and holds a mindshare of 7.0%, down 13.1% compared to last year.
HashiCorp Nomad, on the other hand, focuses on Container Management, holds 3.3% mindshare, up 1.8% since last year.

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)	7.0%
Amazon AWS	16.0%
Microsoft Azure	15.5%
Other	61.5%

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

Container Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HashiCorp Nomad	3.3%
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	19.7%
VMware Tanzu Platform	12.1%
Other	64.9%

Container Management

Featured Reviews

Julio Graham

Managing Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Support resolves issues quickly and helps in expanding storage efficiently

Their support is really good. I can ask anything at any time, and they are able to resolve issues like reinstating deleted Linodes. They include features like retaining deleted Linodes for 30 days. They offer volumes and object storage, which I can add quickly, and they are high speed. I can easily expand space for database work. Although I used to create images, I found them outdated and prefer installing new images.

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Zeeshan Akhtar

Full stack developer at VMware

Has out of the box features , which is good for companies that don't want to spend too much time on research

I've noticed a few UI issues. For example, when monitoring services and tasks, sometimes the tasks keep disconnecting. If you open the shell in HashiCorp Nomad using the exit button, it often disconnects, and you have to log in again. Sometimes, when I check the logs in the UI for microservices tasks, I encounter an issue where the logs are not visible. However, if I log in again after some time, refresh the page, or check a different container, the logs usually appear. These logs are being generated, as I can see them being shipped to my LogView. I'm not sure if this is a product issue or something related to our deployment, but I've noticed it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is also important that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers. The ability to deploy on multiple servers, worldwide, allows us to have distributed services and failover and redundancy."

"The management of different DNS domains is beneficial due to the user-friendly interface that provides all necessary options."

"For my usage, which is a small business, I rate the scalability of Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) around nine or ten."

"The number one thing we like about Linode isn't necessarily a service, it's their support. We've found their support to be absolutely fantastic. They've been so outstanding with their support. Every single time we call them and we ask for advice or help, they go above and beyond and it's really made us appreciate what they do."

"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."

"The cloud management panel is nice."

"The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."

"The solution integrates easily."

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"You could get most of HashiCorp Nomad's features from other microservice orchestrators like Kubernetes. The tool's advantage is its ease of use and integration with services like Envoy. With Kubernetes, you must think about many things, like UI integration, which vault to use, and how to discover the service. With the tool, many things come out of the box, making it easy to start. For example, using the Ingress proxy with the tool is quite easy, while it's trickier with Kubernetes."

"If you face an issue with an image during deployment, the solution will automatically revert to the last stable image."

Cons

"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."

"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."

"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."

"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."

"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."

"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."

"I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encountered any major issues. I might consider using API for managing DNS records, but overall, I'm satisfied with Linode."

"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."

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"It would be good to have a UI interface so that developers could receive notifications for jobs in a bad state."

"I've noticed a few UI issues. For example, when monitoring services and tasks, sometimes the tasks keep disconnecting. If you open the shell in HashiCorp Nomad using the exit button, it often disconnects, and you have to log in again. Sometimes, when I check the logs in the UI for microservices tasks, I encounter an issue where the logs are not visible. However, if I log in again after some time, refresh the page, or check a different container, the logs usually appear. These logs are being generated, as I can see them being shipped to my LogView. I'm not sure if this is a product issue or something related to our deployment, but I've noticed it."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Being that they are small, their prices are slightly higher than the large providers like Amazon if you compare raw computing power."

"Currently, we are at $40 a month but they have costly solutions as well."

"The monthly cost depends on your requirements."

"The pricing model is very simple. I like the simplicity of it, starting at $5, then doubling as it goes up from there. That is a brilliant idea, and it is not complex at all. It is about as dead simple as you can imagine. So, if you want to double what you have, then you double your price, pay the money, and reboot. It is done. It's that simple. You can't beat that."

"There might be something a little bit cheaper but I find it very fair and competitive, and nothing to complain about."

"One key difference is that pricing is very hard to come by and to understand with all the bigger companies. Their pricing models are so weird and it's hard to figure out exactly how much I am going to pay for this kind of service. Everything is piecemeal. With Linode, it's simple and straightforward. You know exactly what you will have to pay at the end of the day."

"The value for the price is really good."

"Compared to other service providers, like AWS and Google, the cost of services are much less and more affordable. We are saving about 90 percent by going with Linode versus other cloud providers."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

16%

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Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	1

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Linode?

When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Linode?

I find Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode)'s pricing very competitive. They never charge extra without improvements. I always receive more features for the same price.

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What needs improvement with Linode?

I am not satisfied with the customization options from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) because I still haven't tried any new capabilities provided by them yet. I am still keeping it as a virtual se...

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What needs improvement with HashiCorp Nomad?

Sometimes, the job is in a bad state, and we don't get any notifications. It would be good to have a UI interface so that developers could receive notifications for jobs in a bad state.

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What is your primary use case for HashiCorp Nomad?

We use HashiCorp Nomad mainly to deploy our images in the form of jobs. It is also used for load balancing, containerization, and instance deployment.

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What advice do you have for others considering HashiCorp Nomad?

I would recommend HashiCorp Nomad to other users because it is the best tool for deployment. It is easy for a beginner to learn to use HashiCorp Nomad for the first time. Any developer with a decen...

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Overview

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with our Linux virtual machines and robust set of tools to develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.

Linode believes that in order to accelerate innovation in the cloud, virtual computing must be more accessible, affordable, and simple. Our infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global markets from our data centers around the world and is supported by our Next Generation Network, advanced APIs, comprehensive services, and vast library of educational resources. Linode products, services, and people enable developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications more easily and cost-effectively in the cloud.

Increase storage capacity with additional Block Storage or S3-compatible Object Storage. Add instant Backups with complete independency to your stack. Ensure your applications and services are highly-available with Linode NodeBalancers. Deploy Kubernetes clusters with our fully-managed container orchestration engine.

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HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management: application development, delivery, and maintenance.

The datacenter of today is very different than the datacenter of yesterday, and we think the datacenter of tomorrow is just around the corner. We're writing software to take you all the way from yesterday to today, and then safely to tomorrow and beyond.

Physical, virtual, containers. Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Windows, Linux, Mac. These are just some of the choices faced when architecting a datacenter of today. And the choice is not one or the other; instead, it is often a combination of many of these.

HashiCorp builds tools to ease these decisions by presenting solutions that span the gaps. Our tools manage both physical machines and virtual machines, Windows, and Linux, SaaS and IaaS, etc. And we're committed to supporting next-generation technologies, as well.

HashiCorp was founded and continues to be run by the primary authors of all our core technologies powering thousands of companies worldwide. We speak at conferences and write books related to application and infrastructure management.

All our foundational technologies are open source and developed openly, and have been since 2010.

The Tao of HashiCorp is the foundation that guides our vision, roadmap, and product design. As you evaluate using or contributing to HashiCorp's products, it may be valuable to understand the motivations and intentions for our work.

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