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Joyent Cloud vs Linode: What are the differences?
What is Joyent Cloud? Cloud Infrastructure for Real-time Web and Mobile Applications. Joyent is the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, offering the only solution specifically built to power real-time web and mobile applications.
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.
Joyent Cloud and Linode can be categorized as "Cloud Hosting" tools.
Some of the features offered by Joyent Cloud are:
- Joyent offers exclusive debugging and performance analysis tools for Node.js applications.
- High-performance machines- Joyent Cloud uses fresh Nehalem/Westmere processors and 15k RPM HDs in our data centers. I/O throttling ensures that “noisy neighbors” won’t cause your application to perform poorly.
- Dynamic CPU scaling- Dynamic, real-time CPU scaling. Vertical bursting CPU capacity without user intervention or additional fees.
On the other hand, Linode provides the following key features:
- Deploy multiple Linux distributions
- Create Configuration Profiles which associate disk images and device nodes
- Boot between configuration profiles
"High-performance" is the primary reason why developers consider Joyent Cloud over the competitors, whereas "Extremely reliable" was stated as the key factor in picking Linode.
According to the StackShare community, Linode has a broader approval, being mentioned in 130 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Joyent Cloud, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Chose Hetnzer over DigitalOcean and Linode because Hetzner provides much cheaper VPS with much better specs. DigitalOcean might seems like a good choice at first because of how popular it is. But in reality, if all you need is a simple VPS, you won't benefit much from the their oversubscribed datacenters which often underperform other competitors. Linode is also a good choice. They have cheaper options and performs slightly better than DigitalOcean. In the end, choosing a more affordable host helps you save money. That's important when you're running a tight ship.
Pros of Joyent Cloud
- Secure Zones and Data Centers4
- High-performance4
- Performance analysis tools3
- Dynamic CPU scaling2
- Self-service provisioning2
- Real-time analytics1
- Real-time visualization1
- Big data servers1
Pros of Linode
- 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 Joyent Cloud
Cons of Linode
- No "floating IP" support2
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