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Linode vs Scaleway

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Overview

Linode
Linode
Stacks782
Followers623
Votes422
Scaleway
Scaleway
Stacks198
Followers182
Votes200

Linode vs Scaleway: What are the differences?

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; Scaleway: BareMetal SSD cloud servers. Scaleway is the best platform to deploy BareMetal ARM & X64 SSD cloud servers. Enjoy a new cloud computing experience!.

Linode and Scaleway 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, Scaleway provides the following key features:

  • A fantastic user experience that gives you the power to spawn your servers in two clicks.
  • Deploy dedicated SSD servers with constant and predictable performance in 44 seconds.
  • Uptime and response time guarantee for mission critical services backed by our 24x7 support team.

"Extremely reliable" is the top reason why over 97 developers like Linode, while over 26 developers mention "Scalable" as the leading cause for choosing Scaleway.

According to the StackShare community, Linode has a broader approval, being mentioned in 130 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Scaleway, which is listed in 16 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Advice on Linode, Scaleway

Dalton
Dalton

Nov 8, 2020

Decided

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.

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Detailed Comparison

Linode
Linode
Scaleway
Scaleway

Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.

European cloud computing company proposing a complete & simple public cloud ecosystem, bare-metal servers & private datacenter infrastructures.

Deploy multiple Linux distributions;Create Configuration Profiles which associate disk images and device nodes;Boot between configuration profiles;Share disk images between configuration profiles;Resize disk images;Network and CPU usage graphs;Multiple IP address support;Managed/hosted DNS service with slave support;Custom reverse DNS (rdns);Access Out of band console access using Lish;Lish menu system to issue jobs to your Linode;Lish access via SSH keys;Support for booting into single user mode, init=/bin/bash;Support for booting with a custom "root=" kernel parameter;Support for booting with an initrd;Bootable recovery distribution (Finnix);Add and remove extra resources to and from your Linode;Shutdown Watchdog will automatically reboot your Linode in case of a crash;Clone a Linode to another;Move IPs from one Linode to another;IP address fail over support for high availability setups
A fantastic user experience that gives you the power to spawn your servers in two clicks.;Uptime and response time guarantee for mission critical services backed by our 24x7 support team.
Statistics
Stacks
782
Stacks
198
Followers
623
Followers
182
Votes
422
Votes
200
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 100
    Extremely reliable
  • 70
    Good value
  • 60
    Great customer support
  • 58
    Easy to configure
  • 37
    Great documentation
Cons
  • 2
    No "floating IP" support
Pros
  • 30
    Scalable
  • 25
    Dedicated
  • 25
    Cost effective
  • 21
    Bare-metal
  • 14
    Open source
Integrations
No integrations available
Terraform
Terraform
Packer
Packer
Salt
Salt
Docker Machine
Docker Machine

What are some alternatives to Linode, Scaleway?

DigitalOcean

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.

Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2

It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure

Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure. Google Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that allows you to easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. There are no upfront investments and you can run up to thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed from the ground up to be fast, and to offer strong consistency of performance.

Rackspace Cloud Servers

Rackspace Cloud Servers

Cloud Servers is based on OpenStack, the open and scalable operating system for building public and private clouds. With the open cloud, you get reliable cloud hosting, without locking your data into one proprietary platform.

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform

It helps you build what's next with secure infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, data analytics and machine learning. It is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.

Gandi

Gandi

Gandi VPS Cloud Hosting offers you a flexible server with dedicated resources. The VPS virtualization is made possible by Xen technology.

WebFaction

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.

Joyent Cloud

Joyent Cloud

Joyent is the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, offering the only solution specifically built to power real-time web and mobile applications.

Vultr

Vultr

Strategically located in 16 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of public cloud, storage and single-tenant bare metal.

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