We've had requests for additional security and notification options for the Linode Manager, and recently we've noticed an upward trend in Linode Manager brute force attempts, so we decided to tackle a couple related features on our long and ever-growing feature request list (keep them coming).
Login IP Whitelisting and Notification Feature
You'll receive a notification via [...]

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I'm pleased to announce that Linode has scored another worthy employee - Phil Paradis.  In addition to his rich technical talents and accomplishments, Phil runs ClassHelper.org, an "educational resources site dedicated to providing useful tools and materials to the teaching community."  He'll be helping us with the support load, as well as carrying development, documentation, [...]

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For no good reason other than we like to keep you on your toes, we've gone and added 33.3% more disk space to our plans, for both existing and new customers, available immediately!  You can utilize this space by resizing your existing disk images or by creating new images and attaching them to your configuration [...]

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I'm pleased to announce that we've started the beta program for our new service: Managed Backups.  You can learn more about the progress of the beta program here:
Linode Backup Service Beta Forum
Linode Backup Service
We want you to have backups. Hell, I want backups. But they're tedious to configure and monitor. We've all heard the stories [...]

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James Sinclair has joined Linode this week full time.  Many of you already know him from our IRC channel as irgeek.  James has a very long history with Linode and our community -- he's one of our oldest customers, possessing the 9th Linode ever created, which he acquired just three days after we opened for [...]

Filed under: announcements, linode by caker
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It's now possible to boot custom kernels and even alternate operating systems under your Linode instance by the use of pv-grub -- a port of the GRUB bootloader into the Xen mini-os kernel.  Essentially, your Linode boots into the pv-grub kernel, looks for your menu.lst and associated kernel files, and then executes your kernel.
Although this [...]

Filed under: announcements, distros, features by caker
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Linode is proud to announce that we'll be hosting the Rails Rumble programming competition again this year!

The Rails Rumble is a 48 hour web application development contest. As a contestant, you get one weekend to design, develop, and deploy the best web property that you can, using the awesome power of Ruby on Rails.
As a [...]

Filed under: announcements, linode by tasaro
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Randy "you had me at hello" Estelow joins Linode this week full time.   He's a hardware guy, and will be lovingly assembling, testing, and bringing all of our new hosts online.  Randy impressed all of us when he arrived with a neatly organized toolbox full of implements for computer surgery.  He's "restelow" in our IRC [...]

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Referral System
We've considered adding a referral system for quite some time.  Linode does very little advertising, and most of our new business comes from word of mouth -- meaning, it comes from you, our customers, referring your friends and colleagues.  We appreciate that, and believe that such loyalty deserves a reward.  So, we now have [...]

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Linode is sponsoring a few episodes of The Web 2.0 Show -- a podcast about emerging web technologies.  Josh Owens, the lead developer of Tastyplanner (Rails Rumble 2007 Grand Prize winner) and Adam Stacoviak are the hosts who "focus on interviewing the developers and entrepreneurs who are creating the next generation of web services and [...]

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