We performed a comparison between Linode and NGINX Plus 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)."It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The virtual machine configuration tool is very helpful for setting up a new server or for modifying an existing server."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"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 most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"Nginx is extremely efficient in terms of the connection rate to the CPU cycles ratio, and in terms of the bandwidth to CPU cycles."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"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."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Linode is rated 8.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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