Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Kemp LoadMaster comparison

The compared Akamai and Progress Software solutions aren't in the same category. Akamai is ranked #5 in ISI , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 5.7% mindshare in the category. Progress Software is ranked #9 in ADC , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 7.5% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Progress Software 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) (5th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (9th)

Kemp LoadMaster

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) and Kemp LoadMaster 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 5.7%, down 13.5% compared to last year.
Kemp LoadMaster, on the other hand, focuses on Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), holds 7.5% mindshare, up 7.1% since last year.

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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 Although I used to create images, I found them outdated and prefer installing new images.

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PeterForster

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

A highly stable and scalable load-balancing software that offers great technical support

My company is really happy with Kemp LoadMaster as a product. My company is also happy with the support we receive from Kemp LoadMaster. I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement. Feature-wise, Kemp LoadMaster has everything that our company's customers require. Kemp LoadMaster also has features that have supported our company's past projects.

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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

"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."

"I rate Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) a 10."

"When it comes to the Linode Kubernetes Engine and the amount of automation it provides, it's awesome, it's a game-changer. If a process randomly dies, it could take me a while to notice that it has died, if I haven't set up monitoring. With Kubernetes, it will just restart itself using Heartbeats."

"We can scale up and down as we require."

"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."

"Overall, Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) is easy to use and has a fair price, making it accessible and straightforward, which is crucial when compared to other complex solutions."

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

"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."

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"The most valuable features are synchronizing email with mobile devices and synchronizing with Outlook."

"Great web balancing and remote access balancing."

"From my personal experience, many firewalls provide Load Balancing functionalities, but Kemp Loadmaster has a lot of features and functionalities like what you can configure. So there are a lot of features but we use only five percent of it."

"I like that this is a Network Load Balancer that can be used practically with any application in the backend. They have how-to guides on how to set up Kemp NLB with Exchange, but you can use it as well for Sharepoint, RDS, or any other back end server."

"The security features, load balancing, built-in templates, and the easy to implement virtual IPs are great."

"Using Kemp as a front-facing service appliance, it allows me to have the flexibility of swapping out real servers behind the scenes without any intervention from my network team."

"The solution is easy to configure when changing the load balancing method to Round Robin or least connection."

"LoadMaster is easy to deploy and understand."

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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."

"Our primary concern is always the latency."

"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."

"Its cost can be improved."

"The Cloud Manager interface sometimes feels slow, particularly when accessed from Asia."

"I've had some difficulties with some of their IP addresses being banned by certain mail servers."

"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."

"The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered."

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"If you want logging for SMTP traffic, you have to enable ESP, which requires you to define allowed IP addresses. That’s irritating, to say the least."

"Although Kemp is very user-friendly, it lacks a more custom configuration."

"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."

"It lacks an officially supported, well-written SCOM Management Pack."

"If I had to change something it would maybe be to have a little better reporting graphics that show more details in the reporting. It seems to be a little small in the graphic, and I'm not sure if possible but maybe a GUI page that one can use to monitor if any server goes down."

"It has all types of logs and they are very detailed, but it's a little bit hard to search for a single event."

"To make it a perfect ten out of ten it would need better connection logging. If there is an active connection, that there is better logging. It should also have better management monitoring tools."

"The product could be improved by making the SSL Offloading easier."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Compared to other providers, I find Linode's pricing a bit higher. Storage could be more affordable."

"I pay $5 per month for each of three servers, for a total of $15 per month, and I normally prepay a few months in advance."

"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."

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

"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."

"I pay just over £20 per month and have done so ever since I started eight years ago, which to me is good value."

"When we started with the service, the cost was approximately €5 per month."

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"Currently, no cost is involved with a virtual load balancer. They have used open source. We did not pay for software. We paid for the expertise. We are only paying the consulting charges, which are very reasonable, that is, around a thousand dollars."

"Download Kemp's VLM trial and take it for a test drive; you will be impressed."

"The Kemp LoadMaster is a tremendous value."

"At $2,500 USD, this is absolutely a fantastic buy for the money!"

"The product definitely provides what the organization needs and its cost is reasonable considering the value it brings."

"The pricing is alright and we pay a monthly licensing fee"

"It has a great price for the solution they offer."

"KEMP gives away free trials for 30 days. This can be stretched if you want. During the test, you will have access to KEMP support."

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Computer Software Company

18%

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Educational Organization

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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?

There was an option to sort domains by tags, which seems to have been removed. It would be useful to have the option to sort or group by tags on the domains page.

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What do you like most about Kemp LoadMaster?

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kemp LoadMaster?

LoadMaster is cheaper than some other solutions. It has a perpetual license, so it's a one-time cost.

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What needs improvement with Kemp LoadMaster?

There are some challenges with updates on certain models that don't have a few features. The support team often takes a lot of time to provide resolutions for issues. Also, I could see more capabil...

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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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Akamai

Kemp LoadMaster is a powerful load balancing solution that also serves as a web application firewall. Its primary use case is load balancing and application load balancing, making it an ideal solution for organizations that must distribute traffic across multiple servers. Kemp's integration with an active directory for ESP usage, hosting/deployment of SSL certificates, and pricing are some of its most valuable features.

Using Kemp has helped organizations mitigate cross-scripting vulnerabilities, cookie-related issues, and content security policy issues. It has also allowed them to handle everything with Kemp instead of working on each application individually.

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Sample Customers

Best Buy, Panasonic, Giphy, Marco Polo, World Health Organization, Font Squirrel

Kent County Council, KEMP, SMA Solar Technology AG, RT Player , Victrix (Quebec, Canada), Texas A&M, Macmillan Cancer Support, Cisco, Austin Bank

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