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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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Linode, LLC is seeking software developers in the Atlantic County, NJ area. The ideal candidate would have experience with several of the following items, and a passion to learn the rest:

ColdFusion, Perl, PHP, Ruby (on rails), XHTML, CSS
Object Oriented Design
MVC frameworks
Relational Database Design and SQL
System Administration
User Mode Linux, Xen, Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM)
Computer Networking
Linux, [...]

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Linode is now accepting Discover card for payment, in addition to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. There have been a few requests for this, so while we were tweaking our merchant account we made sure to add it. Now you can start accumulating your cashback bonus points while paying for your Linode subscription.
Also, [...]

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As you know, we've replaced all of our hosts over the last few months. We're in talks with a "technology asset recovery" firm about acquiring them, but thought we'd offer them to customers first.
All hard drives have been removed, rails and power cord are included.
Here is the build list. If you are interested, [...]

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Linode.com is proud to be sponsoring the first annual Rails Rumble Championship!
With competition officially slated for September 8th to 9th, assemble your team and head on over to their site to register.
The concept is simple: you get 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a web application from scratch. After those 48 hours are up, [...]

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Podcast: The Return of User-Mode Linux
Virtual Strategy Magazine speaks with Jeff Dike, author and maintainer of User-Mode Linux and Christopher Aker, president of Linode, a hosting company that offers virtual machines running on UML.
Article: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/article/articleview/1874/1/64/
MP3: http://virtual-strategy.com/podcasts/2007-02-13_UML_Linode.mp3
I'll provide a transcript in the next few days for those that requested it.
-Chris

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I'm pleased to announce that in addition to Fremont, CA and Dallas, TX datacenters, we now have machines located in Atlanta, GA. There are a few more details on the "Our Network" page. For latency comparison, you can ping 64.22.71.1 .
Please open a support ticket if you're interested in migrating to that datacenter.
-Chris

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I'm very pleased to announce that Tom Asaro has joined Linode's team. Tom has spent the past 8 years as the IT Manager for one of the two largest framing contractors in the United States and its subsidiary, a tourism firm that furnishes high end trips throughout Asia. Part of his responsibilities included [...]

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