Linode features<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBackup<\/h3>\n Creating a backup of important files and database is a crucial activity for a webmaster. Unlike shared hosting platforms, users will have to backup their data themselves by typing commands in the terminal. Linode & DigitalOcean offers a special tool for the users who want an automated solution. The tool will backup you data on a regular basis. Its pricing starts at 2.0 USD.<\/p>\n
Load Balancer for high availability<\/h3>\n Linode offers NodeBalancers for the high-traffic websites. The NodeBalancers have health monitoring modules to make webmasters aware of site related issues. Users can control the NB with CLI or by the API. Users\u00a0of Digital Ocean who want to set up a load balancer will have to refer tutorials.<\/p>\n
Insights<\/h3>\n With DigitalOcean and Linode, you don’t have to log in to the server via terminal or putty to check the memory, CPU and the bandwidth usage of your websites. This information can be accessed from the account’s dashboard.<\/p>\n
Support<\/h3>\n Both the hosting providers offer ticket based customer support. The support will be limited to unmanaged VPS accounts. They support executives will not help you in troubleshooting a problem in your application or database. So raise a ticket only when you’re website is unreachable because off a network outage or server problem.<\/p>\n
CPUs<\/h3>\n All DigitalOcean and Linode VPS servers are powered by Intel Xeno E5 series processors. The CPU is powerful and ideal for cloud hosting services.<\/p>\n
The big question.<\/p>\n
Who is the winner? DigitalOcean or Linode?<\/h3>\n Frankly speaking, it is tough to answer this question. Both the cloud hosting platforms offer similar services.\u00a0But this doesn’t mean that you cannot choose one service between the two.<\/p>\n
Identify the country from which most of your website traffic comes from. Then, check which cloud hosting provider has a data center in the country from which most of your visitors come\u00a0from. If it’s Linode, signup with Linode<\/a> else buy\u00a0a hosting plan from DigitalOcean<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linode and Digital Ocean cloud VPS providers offer KVM based servers for hosting a website and 40 GbE for high-speed networking. These two companies are growing at a very fast rate giving a cut throat competition to Hostgator, Bluehost, Vultr, and many other VPS providers. Today, we have compared the features and services offered by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6991],"tags":[11413,7053],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hosting","tag-affiliate","tag-vps"],"yoast_head":"\n
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