Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Kemp LoadMaster comparison

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

"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."

"They have a very nice web interface to allow you to manage and reorganize your server."

"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."

"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."

"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."

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

"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."

"We needed a Microsoft Threat Management Gateway server replacement solution for a customer and were impressed with the simplified deployment of the Kemp LoadMasters."

"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."

"The security features are the most valuable features of this solution."

"Security is considered the most effective feature in Kemp LoadMaster."

"The most valuable feature so far has been the high-availability options that allowed us to add an additional Kemp LoadMaster VLM virtual appliance into our VMware vSphere environment, to provide failover for our existing LoadMaster."

"Failover is seamless and our services are rock solid."

"Mitigates content security policy issues."

"We are most impressed with the ease of use and great support."

"Right now, they don't have multiple data centers. They have limited data centers. I am currently using the Singapore and Mumbai data centers, but I am looking for data centers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. They need to improve the availability of their data centers and partnership engagements with cloud Panda solution providers, like us."

"One thing that I'd really like to see is auto-scaling node pools for their Kubernetes. I don't think that they have that. That's a huge one and would be very helpful. Specifically, what I would like is auto-scaling node pools that would scale down to zero nodes, which is tricky. That's very important for certain use cases."

"The main area for improvement is the lack of a backup feature to the local hard disk or storage."

"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."

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

"They are already working on the firewalls and VLANs, which need improvement, and are now in beta. I am on the beta program for the firewalls, but I can't use it yet because they are only in Mumbai and Australia, and I am not in those data centres. This is the one thing that I have been waiting for almost since the day that I joined them, so it is nice that they are doing that. The VLANs will be an improvement as well, and I am keen and waiting for that."

"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."

"The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you're an Uber-sized company then you're probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you're going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future."

"They were still in the process of development, and for example, we set it up in a cluster. So it was one logistical unit built out of two physical devices. And the expected behavior, which I know from other devices, will be formed into a logic cluster. It's that you configure one unit. Then you bring the second unit into this cluster with the already configured primary unit. So the secondary box pulls all the configured ones from its neighbor, does everything automatically, and then synchronizes with this primary neighbor. And then it works, like, one logical unit. And this didn't work with the Kemp's initially, where they caused a lot of issues when building up a cluster, so there were some specials on how to set this up. When we built or set them up for the first time and the months afterward with no new software releases, there were a couple of problems, but in the end, they worked fine. So, they developed a lot and learned from what they've responded to, what we responded to them, and what needs fixing."

"UI is very basic and unattractive."

"So far, the only hitch we have run into is that would have been nice to have an easier method to add allow/whitelist entries into the Access Control lists for virtual services."

"Perhaps Kemp could offer some training videos."

"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."

"It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface."

"It would be much easier to have the management interface directly integrate with the Kemp Support library, allowing you to choose the desired template from the online catalog to then directly download to the LoadMaster."

"The auth website of ESP is really lacking. It’s not responsive (mobile friendly) and the procedure of changing the website is difficult. We tend to avoid using pre-auth for that reason."

"The biggest benefit of Linode is the pricing. It's the best deal in the business... Their pricing model is also very simple compared to Azure. I don't understand why Azure doesn't price things the way that Linode does."

"It is quite affordable, which makes it a great choice."

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees to include things like extra public IPs and backup services."

"Pricing is very good and flexible, according to the resources required."

"Overall, it is cost-effective. They offer flat, no lock-in pricing. We also get discounts. As compared to its competitors, it is costly, but at the same time, it has many features."

"The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."

"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."

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

"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."

"This product has good value and features for the money."

"This is a cost-efficient product."

"The price is great and the value is definitely there."

"Less expensive than Citrix."

"Any decent product will cost money and if you want great support and a great product, then you will want to spend the money on it."

"The price is lower than other options."