Compare Provider Features

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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

Akamai Alibaba Cloud
Australia
Brazil
Canada
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Singapore
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
Australia
China
Germany
India
Indonesia
Japan
Malaysia
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States

Features and Usability

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Akamai Alibaba Cloud
Hourly Billing  Yes Mixed
DDOS Protection  Yes Yes
Backups  No Yes
Control Panel  Builtin Custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  24 24
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 4
Monitoring Charts  Yes Yes
Admin REST API  Yes Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  Yes No
Reverse DNS  Yes No
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal Credit cards, Paypal, Alipay
Hidden CPU Model  No No
Affiliate Program  Yes Yes
IPv6 support  Yes No
Firewall  Yes Yes
Shelving  No No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Akamai Alibaba Cloud
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Akamai
  • Fast growing list of features.
  • Large choice of instance types.
  • Modern and fast management UI.
  • Large choice of datacenters.
  • Wide mix of CPUs, fast and slow, old and new.
Alibaba Cloud
  • Numerous datacenter locations.
  • Large catalog of cloud services.
  • Varying pricing depending on location.
  • Complex, hard to use UI.

Performance Comparisons

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