We performed a comparison between Linode and MinIO based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"The ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"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 most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"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 feature is the ease of management and administration."
"The most valuable features are that MinIO is open, it works on-premise, and is compatible with the Amazon industry which is great for finding compatible libraries in many languages which is very good for developers."
"The container installation features are good. The S3 feature provisions the storage buckets making it easy. It allows me to spin up the public buckets with open-source technology."
"Very good at object retrieval."
"The product does save time for our company."
"Good interface and a good approach to development and testing environments."
"Reliable erasure coding."
"The initial setup was very easy - one click, and it was installed."
"The product must improve its security."
"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"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."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"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."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"It's not really an issue with Linode itself but upgrading Linux major versions can be challenging. It would be be fantastic if Linode developed a way to ease transitioning to a major new Linux upgrade."
"Lacks documentation for non-Kubernetes users."
"There is a lack of good addons to integrate without having to use third-party applications."
"The documentation of the solution should improve."
"The monitoring capability is really bad and needs to be improved."
"Limited storage provided in the free version."
"Its reverse proxy features could be better."
"The product's initial setup phase is complex."
"There should be the ability to expand the size after it has already been deployed. Currently, you cannot do that. It doesn't support an increase in size. Each time we spawn a new MinIO, we need to track the particular MinIO instance or tenant that has the file. Therefore, we had to create a multi-tenant solution that tracks the MinIO that has our artifacts. It isn't in one single instance. It should have better multi-tenancy support."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while MinIO is ranked 1st in File and Object Storage with 22 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while MinIO is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MinIO writes " A tool for storage purposes that helps businesses save time". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Alibaba Cloud, whereas MinIO is most compared with Red Hat Ceph Storage, NetApp StorageGRID, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Dell ECS and Qumulo.
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