We are also beginning limited trials of large IPv6 allocations routed to Linodes. If you’d like to take part in the trial please open a ticket and we’ll do our best to accommodate your needs.

Enjoy!

This new facility will service the growing Asia Pacific demand for low-latency cloud services, and joins the growing number of options for your Linode Cloud deployments. The Tokyo facility delivers all of our services including Linodes, Managed Backups, and NodeBalancers.

There is no premium for placing Linode instances in our Asia Pacific location. Pricing for this location is the same as our other facilities.

You can use our speedtest page to test latency and download speeds from Tokyo or any of our six facilities. We can easily migrate your Linodes from one facility to another — just open a support ticket and we’ll take care of you.

NodeBalancer is a managed load-balancer-as-a-service (lbaas), built upon a high-available cloud cluster architecture. Placing a NodeBalancer in front of your Linode cloud servers allows you to scale your applications and service horizontally and also adds conveniences like being able to perform rolling upgrades across your fleet without affecting existing sessions.

A NodeBalancer is $19.95/mo and can balance multiple ports at no additional cost. Public network transfer is deducted from your existing Transfer Pool. For complete details, please see

• NodeBalancer Product Page
• NodeBalancer Howto
• NodeBalancer Reference Guide
• NodeBalancer API

You’ll notice a new ‘NodeBalancer’ tab in the Linode Manager where you can manage your NodeBalancers.  Enjoy!

-Chris

IPv4 was released in 1981 as a 32-bit range that provided roughly 4.3 billion IP addresses. Unfortunately, in just a few years, the protocol was identified to have scalability problems under the Classful Network architecture it employed at the time. As a result, the IETF was formed in 1991 and replaced the previous addressing architecture with Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) with the goal of slowing the growth of routing tables across the Internet and ultimately the depletion of IPv4 addresses.

With IPv4 address exhaustion inevitable, in 1998 the IETF announced a new protocol known as IPv6. This new protocol uses 128 bit addresses capable of supporting 340 undecillion addresses.  To put that into context it amounts to: the existing Internet times the Internet times the Internet times the Internet worth of addresses.

Obviously this allows for many more devices on the network and while also eliminating the need for Network Address Translation (NAT).

However, adoption of IPv6 has been pitifully slow. In fact, according to a recent study by Arbor Networks, IPv6 represents less than 1% of all IP traffic seen on the Internet and very few cloud hosting providers have stepped up to help make this necessary transition possible for their subscribers.

The essence of the problem comes down to this: service providers don’t want IPv6 because there is no subscriber demand, subscribers don’t want it due to lack of content, and the content providers don’t want it unless there are subscribers. Nevertheless, the tipping point for the transition is around the corner and it is better to begin testing and migrating now rather than being left out in the game of IPv4 musical chairs.  We don’t want to be part of the problem.

Linode – part of the solution

While this industry-wide problem has been challenging, Linode has accelerated its efforts towards IPv6 adoption. Subsequently, Linode is proud to announce today native IPv6 support.  This will be a phased roll-out across the facilities, starting with immediate availability in Fremont, Newark in a week or so, followed by Dallas.  For current IPv6 availability please see the Linode IPv6 Status and Frequently Asked Questions page which will be maintained here: http://www.linode.com/IPv6/.

Enjoy!

UPDATE 2011-05-05 – Newark online and IPv6 Pools available

UPDATE 2011-05-26 – Dallas is now IPv6 enabled!

UPDATE 2011-05-31 – There’s now an ‘Enable IPv6′ link on your Linode’s Remote Access subtab.

UPDATE 2011-12-20 – London and Atlanta IPv6 Enabled – blog post.

We are giving away $100,000 in Linode services!  Starting this Friday December 17th at 9:00 AM Eastern the first 1,000 new customers to sign up will each receive $100 in service credit.

Here’s how it works:  Be one of the first 1,000 people to sign up after 9:00 AM Eastern this Friday. If you make the cut, a $100 credit will immediately be placed onto your account to use as you see fit. That’s it! The only fine-print is that the credit is non-transferable and non-refundable.

We’re excited to be able to make this offer and hope that everyone who has been thinking about trying Linode will take this opportunity to experience our service and support first hand.

If you have a Twitter account, please spread the word!

Linode makes a fantastic platform for hosting a Minecraft server.  There’s also a Linode Minecraft StackScript available to get a Minecraft SMP server up and running quickly.

The episode will be airing tonight between 7-8 EST on G4 TV. Check your local listings!

Overall
1st Place: Beer Checkin by Indiana Coders
2nd Place: Owe Me Cash by Platform45
3rd Place: Choons.fm by Nuby on Rails

Solo Division Winner
tldr.it by My Other Car Is Your Face

Appearance
Commendable Kids by Agile Nomads

Completeness
Go vs Go by Black and White

Innovation
Warsquare by acts_as_ninjas

Most Useful
Awesome Fontstacks by The Dudes

A complete list of all the applications is available here.

Congratulations again to the winners and thank you to all of the competitors for making the event so much fun.

The action starts tonight (in just a few hours in fact) and ends Sunday Oct 17th. While the expert panel members will cast their votes right after the competition ends, feel free to sign up to become a public judge and vote for your favorite app between Oct 20-22. We’ll be giving out year-long Linode subscriptions to the winners of the Rails Rumble.

In the meantime, check out the Linode Rails Rumble Statistics page for up to date stats and tweets during the contest this weekend.

Good luck to all the contestants!

Please keep in mind Canonical will only be providing support for this version for 18 months – after which you’ll either have to upgrade or reinstall. There is always Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support) which carries updates for five years for servers.

Enjoy!

Since Linode’s beginning we’ve continuously worked hard to provide the exceptional quality of service we feel our customers deserve. It’s been an honor and a privilege, and we’re incredibly proud of what Linode has become. You can bet Linode will continue to innovate, add features and services, and continue to grow as a company and a service, just as we’ve always done.

To commemorate this milestone and to show our appreciation for you, our customers, we’ve increased RAM across all our plans by about +42%. The new Linode Lineup looks like this: Linode 512, Linode 768, Linode 1024, Linode 1536, Linode 2048, Linode 4096 (4GB), Linode 8192 (8GB), Linode 12288 (12GB), Linode 16384 (16GB), Linode 20480 (20GB).

This upgrade is available immediately for existing and new customers. To take advantage of your new RAM, simply reboot once. That’s it!

Thank you for your business over the past seven years. We look forward to the next seven. Enjoy the resource increase.