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Linode vs UpCloud: What are the differences?
What is Linode? Deploy and Manage Linux Virtual Servers in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.
What is UpCloud? A control panel and API lets you spend more time coding and less time managing your cloud infrastructure. It was formed by a group of like-minded thinkers who saw a clear opportunity to defy mediocrity: to become a cloud infrastructure company that would outperform every existing company on the market.
Linode and UpCloud belong to "Cloud Hosting" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Linode are:
- Deploy multiple Linux distributions
- Create Configuration Profiles which associate disk images and device nodes
- Boot between configuration profiles
On the other hand, UpCloud provides the following key features:
- Industry-leading performance
- Faster-than-SSD with MaxIOPS
- Native IPv6 Support
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- Extremely reliable100
- Good value70
- Great customer support60
- Easy to configure58
- Great documentation37
- Servers across the world24
- Managed/hosted DNS service18
- Simple ui15
- Network and CPU usage graphs11
- IPv6 support7
- Multiple IP address support6
- Good price, good cusomter sevice3
- Ssh access3
- IP address fail over support2
- SSH root access2
- Great performance compared to EC2 or DO1
- It runs apps with speed1
- Best customizable VPS1
- Latest kernels1
- Cheapest1
- Ssds1
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Cons of Linode
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- No "floating IP" support2
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What is Linode?
Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.
What is UpCloud?
It was formed by a group of like-minded thinkers who saw a clear opportunity to defy mediocrity: to become a cloud infrastructure company that would outperform every existing company on the market.
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What are some alternatives to Linode and UpCloud?
DigitalOcean
We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
Vultr
Strategically located in 16 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of public cloud, storage and single-tenant bare metal.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
WebFaction
No need to spend hours installing and configuring the software, database and other tools. We have over 50 one-click installers in our control panel.
RamNode
High performance hosting on a simplified OpenStack platform.