Linode (Akamai Cloud)
Twenty years of unflashy, reliable Linux hosting — now part of Akamai.
Linode predates "the cloud" as a marketing term and has spent twenty years selling Linux VMs without much drama. Akamai bought them in 2022 and has been steadily adding edge / enterprise products on top, but the core VPS offering remains: a clean dashboard, predictable pricing, and the best technical guides on the internet.
For most workloads Linode's shared-CPU pricing is identical to DigitalOcean. The differences show up at the edges: more bundled bandwidth on cheap plans, free DDoS on every instance, but pricier dedicated-CPU tiers.
Pros & cons
- + Akamai backbone means very stable peering globally
- + 5 GB free DDoS protection on every plan
- + Excellent Linux-focused community guides (older than Stack Overflow)
- + Same price points as DO for shared CPU but more bandwidth bundled
- − Acquisition by Akamai in 2022 bolted on enterprise features that confuse the dashboard
- − Dedicated CPU plans cost noticeably more than Hetzner CCX
- − No managed Redis (only Postgres and MySQL)
Plans & pricing
| Plan | Price | CPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanode 1 GB | $5/mo | 1 vCPU | 1 GB | 25 GB | 1 TB |
| Linode 4 GB | $24/mo | 2 vCPU | 4 GB | 80 GB | 4 TB |
| Dedicated 4 GB | $36/mo | 2 vCPU dedicated | 4 GB | 80 GB | 4 TB |
Features at a glance
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