We performed a comparison between Dropbox and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Nasuni, Google and others in Cloud Storage."The most valuable features of Dropbox are it can be used as a repository of all the photographs and videos that you have on the cloud. You do not need to worry about the hard disk crashing."
"The security is very good."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The performance has been good."
"The most valuable feature of Dropbox is its user-friendliness. You can drag and drop files you want to store easily. Additionally, the speed of the solution is great if you have a fast connection."
"One of the most useful features of Dropbox is its ease of use."
"Many people can use the Dropbox service and edit the data, it is simple to use."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"The solution integrates easily."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"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 appreciate."
"Dropbox could make the installation and the log of what has changed in a file easier. Showing logs could be more accessible."
"The solution could improve by being more secure and having more storage."
"They should archive the data."
"The solution lacks sufficient storage capabilities."
"The only thing I have had trouble with is the ability to share files. The recipients of my requests have had difficulty accessing the files."
"It would be good if they could market themselves as a safe solution for corporates. Currently, most corporates don't see it as a safe area to share within."
"Dropbox can improve by enhancing the capacity of storage in the free version."
"2 Gb of free space and then a not so cheap subscription (also if the competitors have similar proposals for customers)."
"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 helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"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."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"The product must improve its security."
"Its cost can be improved."
Dropbox is ranked 4th in Cloud Storage with 83 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while Linode is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Office 365, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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