49 engineers on Hacker News describe using Linode first-hand: 16 endorse it, 7 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“We've quite enjoyed Linode (Akamai) for some custom servers (not http) over the last few years because they include DDOS scrubbing”
endorse · production · shaggie76 · 2025-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The absolute worst part of being a WP Engine customer was being on Linode and the yearly Christmas Eve DDOS.”
regret · production · busterarm · 2024-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started our early cloud infra on Linode and was always so impressed by their customer support. Genuine good quality.”
endorse · production · telesilla · 2022-02-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Self-hosting on Linode or Digital Ocean is cheap and easy.”
endorse · production · mig39 · 2021-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm staying at Linode - their poor security incident handling in the past is a theoretical concern”
mixed · production · vsl · 2019-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We managed 97% uptime on linode over two years, five nines on aws.”
regret · production · 2 yr · madaxe_again · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Fortunately, Linode supports running custom kernels like those provided by the distro. That's how we run our Linode slices”
endorse · production · sdeziel · 2016-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved all our VMs from Linode to Storm because we lost confidence in Linode (DDOS, security, lack of transparency)”
regret · production · St-Clock · 2016-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to GCE at the beginning of this year, from Linode after they were having stability issues over the christmas break.”
regret · production · jhgg · 2016-02-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the end, we migrated away from Linode because of this breach (even before it was publicly disclosed) in Aug 2015.”
regret · production · TheSwordsman · 2016-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Linode has been great to us, but we can't risk further outages. We've switched over 20 nodes to Google Cloud”
mixed · production · houseofmore · 2016-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At Linode, on the other hand, we suffered more than a dozen in less than a year - even with different VMs, different IPs, different OSes”
regret · production · USNetizen · 2015-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“you can't decouple disk space from RAM. So we paid thru the nose just to get more disk space.”
regret · production · EGreg · 2015-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my 7 or so production VMs on Linode are going strong and now have been migrated to their new SSD-based platform.”
endorse · production · drzaiusapelord · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Linode ... for the same price got literally 20x faster performance (measured as rps), good support and flawless setup.”
endorse · production · kmike84 · 2013-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our company using Linode as one of our primary providers. We're very, very happy with their uptimes, control panel, and particularly their support.”
endorse · production · nemesisj · 2013-03-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Linode for almost two years now and can't fault them; they're the best hosting company I've dealt with.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · DirtyMonkey · 2012-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using jekyll with linode quite successfully. Haven't really had any problems.”
endorse · personal · akg · 2011-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally I have my own $20 Linode. I host there 2 blogs and a personal app I'm working on.”
endorse · personal · bad_user · 2011-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I settled on Linode for all new projects for several reasons that I felt made them better in the general case.”
endorse · production · mkramlich · 2011-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Got the 1024 for $40/month. I'm pretty happy it fits my usage. Host my home websites, email, vpn, etc.”
endorse · personal · slyall · 2010-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using them for the past 2 years and have had an exceptional experience... Linode has been the most reliable for me so far”
endorse · production · 2 yr · mdolon · 2010-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to say they really are the best when it comes to VPS.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · woogley · 2010-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to linode from rackspace. They don't have that crazy backup limitation that rackspace does”
endorse · production · catch23 · 2010-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Linode for my personal projects and it's night and day. The control panel is incredibly faster and easier to use”
endorse · personal · shazow · 2010-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use this for AI transcriptions internally on our Linode VPS server.”
neutral · production · rob · 2025-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run yt-dlp on our remote Linode server”
neutral · production · rob · 2025-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from Linode to Hetzner over a year ago for our website and backend”
neutral · production · wrapperup · 2023-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from linode to Vultr because we needed all VPS to talk to each other.”
neutral · production · elforce002 · 2023-03-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“moved everything else to Linode.”
neutral · production · TheNewsIsHere · 2022-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A records at a $5 Linode box running nginx.”
neutral · personal · hughrr · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We wound up on Debian for some linodes in the field”
neutral · production · ggm · 2018-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some of our external services are running on linode.”
neutral · production · noir_lord · 2018-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had the pleasure of seeing exactly how elastic the elb is when we switched Cronitor from linode to aws”
neutral · production · encoderer · 2016-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Aside from Linode where I obviously ran virt”
neutral · production · jsmthrowaway · 2016-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from DO to Linode a few months ago.”
neutral · production · pangram · 2014-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use 1and1 for our main domain (postatic.com) and our DNS is handled by Linode.”
neutral · production · sideproject · 2014-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm in the process of migrating from Rackspace to Linode actually.”
neutral · production · mikegioia · 2014-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“provision/manage a box @ Linode or Digital Ocean”
neutral · production · eyepulp · 2013-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think I moved to Linode in 2008.”
neutral · production · jacques_chester · 2013-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is my only complaint about Linode. We run our one stack that requires a lot of storage on EC2 and use EBS”
neutral · production · sstrudeau · 2013-04-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can always SSH into beefier machines (Linode/University) if I ever need to.”
neutral · personal · saljam · 2012-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we went with a normal account and moved most of our servers to Linode.”
neutral · production · smoyer · 2012-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On the hardware side we're using Linode shared servers so that we can quickly and easily scale up or down”
neutral · production · wizzo · 2011-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can easily handle into the thousands of concurrent connections per second on the lowest end Linode VPS node available”
neutral · production · SomeCallMeTim · 2011-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now we run three sites, one fairly popular, on a 512Mb Linode with Nginx”
neutral · production · todsul · 2011-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have assets on Amazon, Slicehost, and Linode.”
neutral · production · showerst · 2011-04-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Nagios on one of our Linodes to do our server monitoring.”
neutral · production · thaumaturgy · 2010-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unless you're doing some serious processing, a cheap Linode VPS should hold you over until you're profitable”
neutral · production · elektronaut · 2010-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?