Balanced performance for nearly any workload
Shared CPU
Affordable Shared CPU plans are ideal for general workloads and include generous amounts of free bundled transfer.
Balanced performance for nearly any workload
Shared CPU
Affordable Shared CPU plans are ideal for general workloads and include generous amounts of free bundled transfer.
Shared CPU
A balanced array of resources that support a wide range of cloud applications. From personal projects to enterprise applications, Shared Instances can handle it.
Perfect For Most Workloads
Whether you’re running a website, game server, or container cluster, Shared CPUs are the obvious choice for most workloads.
Tailor The Configuration
Start with 1 vCPU and 1GB of RAM and increase all the way up to 32 vCPUs and 192GB of RAM to match your workload requirements.
Price and Performance
No other plan offers more choice. With 10 different configurations, you’re sure to find the right performance at the right price.
Container Clusters
Deploy container clusters to Shared Instances using popular container orchestration tools.
Specifications
Shared CPU Plans
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The Compute Instance Family
Match your application use case with the right compute resource.
Shared CPU Cores
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Customer Stories
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Hero Forge
A cost analysis of GPUs proved that Akamai Cloud Computing was the right choice, and Hero Forge has been a customer since 2013. -
Robot Squid
Robot Squid evaluated several cloud providers, searching for reliability and ease of use. Akamai stood out immediately. -
Nathan Flurry & Nicholas Kissel
Challenges with DigitalOcean's pricing, support, and reliability led Rivet to discover Rise, Akamai's cloud computing startup program. -
Rutledge Daugette
TechRaptor’s compute instances run out of Linode’s Newark, NJ data center. The site’s tech stack includes Ubuntu, Drupal, and MariaDB. -
Mike Kasprzak
Ludum Dare has been on Linode since 2015. Switching to servers with Solid State Drives improved the website performance at a lower cost. -
Nathan Esquenazi
CodePath runs almost entirely out of Linode's Dallas data center and relies on Compute instances, NodeBalancers, and object storage. -
FUTBIN
FUTBIN has been hosted on Linode since day one. The community caught the attention of Better Collective, which acquired FUTBIN for a reported €105 million. -
Dev Mukherjee
Dev Mukherjee runs Anomaly, a full application developer building everything on Linode and recommending it to customers. -
Sheryl Villaroman
Looking for a partner capable of supporting complex needs without inordinate expenses, Nephila Web decided to work with Linode. -
Leo Cunha
Leo Cunha's prior relationship with Linode created "a perfect storm" to develop an open source tool as good or better than commercial products.
Content Resources
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Discover How Akamai & Ateme Lower the Barrier to Entry in Media & Entertainment
In this webinar, media owners will learn and discover ways to boost viewership and subscriber engagement, while unifying delivery. -
Clear Skies Ahead: Getting control over spiraling cloud costs
Project Cirrus is a strategic initiative to optimize and migrate Akamai cloud workloads to our own infrastructure. -
Virtual Private Cloud from Akamai | Secure Networking Within Your Infrastructure
In this video, Gardiner explores VPCs - what they are, how they're used, and why they're being adopted by enterprise customers. -
Apache Log Visualization Made Easy | Elasticsearch and the ELK Stack
In this video, @KeepItTechie explains how to visualize Apache logs using the Elastic Stack on Ubuntu, including logstash and kibana. -
Akamai offers NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada GPUs for gaming and media
Akamai boosts media & gaming performance with NVIDIA RTX 4000 GPUs. Get faster processing and cost-effective delivery for gaming and media. -
Edge Native is the Future and Akamai has Started Building it with Gecko
In this episode, Shawn Michels, VP of Product Management at Akamai, joins me to dive deep into Akamai’s recently announced, bold Gecko initiative, which aims to embed generalized edge compute into Akamai’s existing edge network. -
Create Cloud Resources With the Power of Pulumi | Exploring Pulumi In Depth
In this video, @CodeWithHarry sets up Pulumi, an IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tool for building and deploying your applications. -
Akamai is bringing its deep expertise in CDN, security and public cloud to Cloud Native
Dive into Akamai's cloud strategy as they unleash their CDN & Security expertise for cloud-native & GenAI Use Cases.
Guides
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Getting Started with Linode
This guide shows you how to create a Linode, connect to your Linode over SSH, and perform tasks like updating your system, setting the hostname, and setting the correct timezone. -
Plan Types – Choosing a Compute Instance Type and Plan
This guide provides an overview of all Linode instance types and plans, their corresponding use cases, and how to choose which one is right for you. -
When to Upgrade to Dedicated CPU Instances
In this guide, you learn how to evaluate your current Shared CPU workloads through manual diagnosis, Linode Cloud Manager analytics, and attributes of your use case, to determine if upgrading to a Dedicated CPU instance would be of benefit.
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