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 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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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 [...]

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Years ago, when Linode was still wet behind the ears, all new signups were activated instantly.  Everyone loved it, and life was good -- until we realized that some people weren't the most honest and liked to use stolen credit card information and rip people off and do nasty things with resources.  And so began [...]

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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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We just released the first version of the Linode API.  For now, it only has methods for control over the DNS Manager, but we'll be continually adding more stuff...
To use the API, you must first generate an "api key", which you can do from your "my profile" page in the Linode Manager.  The API honors [...]

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We've released a new version of the Linode Manager with many goodies.  Besides a reorganization of the code (which makes us devs happy), the locations of many pre-existing features have been reorganized as well. But, the real news is this has enabled us to implement some cool features...
Single Sign On

Multiple Linodes can now be managed [...]

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We've created a private Local Area Network (LAN), in each datacenter, upon which Linodes can join, without having to worry about the transfer counting against their monthly network quota. This feature allows for some interesting possibilities. For instance, creating sets of front-end webserver Linodes and back-end database server Linodes which communicate [...]

Filed under: announcements, features, linode manager by mikegrb
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Alert Notifications
You can now get notified via email when your Linode crosses a specific threshold, for several statistics. Alerts are checked once per hour.
Currently, the available parameters are:
CPU usage (two hour average)
Disk IO-ops/sec (two hour average)
Network traffic rate in (two hour average)
Network traffic rate out (two [...]

Filed under: announcements, features, linode manager by mikegrb
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I've been busy lately and have got some great new stuff for you:
Ajax Job Queue Updates - If you've got JavaScript enabled, your browser will check for changes in job progress more frequently, updating the job queue when there are changes. When a job finishes, the other elements on the page are updated as [...]

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