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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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It's official -- Xen is now live at Linode. It's been a long road, almost four years in fact, but, with the help of our community, the most recent beta program has finally proven Xen to be ready for action.
What does Xen mean for you? Xen has less overhead compared to UML. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Clone a Linode's Configuration/disks to another Linode
This feature enables you to clone a Linode's configuration and data over to another Linode that is linked to your account. You can select an entire configuration profile to clone -- and this will automatically create the configuration profile in the target Linode, and copy all disk images [...]

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I've added a new utility which, in effect, allows you to do some of the whole "High Availability" clustering thing, with IP failover between Linodes within the same data center. The utility does not manage or configure IP failover for you, but it does allow the selected IP addresses from linked Linodes to be [...]

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Move or swap IPs across linked Linodes within the same data center
You can now move and/or swap IP addresses assigned from one Linode to another Linode that's under your account -- as long as they're in the same datacenter. This new feature is located here, off the new Utilities sub-tab.
Enjoy!
-Chris

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Datacenter selection on first log in
You can now select the geographic location of your Linode during the inital login! Here's how it works:
Upon your initial login (or the first "switch to" for a new Linode added to an existing account), if there's availability in any of our other datacenters for the Linode plan you've [...]

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