Linode helped to sponsor YAPC|10 this year, and a few of us attended the conference in Pittsburgh, PA. It was really great to meet many of the influential and contributing members of the Perl community. Surprisingly, a fair number of Linode customers also attended, so that was great to put faces to the names.
We got [...]
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It almost went by unnoticed, but today marks Linode's sixth birthday. It was six years ago today that Linode opened its doors for business, and since then we've helped to define our industry -- building one of the most respected VPS brands. We've enjoyed phenomenal growth over the years, constantly improved our features [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Today marks Linode's 5th birthday, and we wanted to extend our sincere thanks by increasing the disk space on all plans by 20%. The extra space is available now for both existing and new customers. We appreciate your business, so enjoy!
To take advantage of your Linode's new space, simply log into the Linode Manager, shut [...]
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Last night we turned up our initial deployment of machines at a facility in Newark, NJ. It's operated by NAC, who runs an impressive facility, has many great peering arrangements, and doesn't block any ports. We've got redundant gigabit uplinks, plenty of power and cooling, and room to grow. We're hoping that this facility will [...]
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James Barrett (aka jadoba), of PLUG fame, has joined the Linode team effective today. Jim maintains the Debiosk, which is a system for quickly building Debian based kiosks. Welcome aboard Jim!
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