Linode Library Turns One

July 30, 2010 1:24 pm

Today marks the one year anniversary of the Linode Library! Over the last twelve months, our documentation team has published over three hundred guides on server administration topics, ranging from basic Linux administration to high availability server configurations, and has made the articles available to anyone who would like to use them. Our mission remains [...]

Linode Turns 7, BIG RAM Increase

June 16, 2010 10:37 am

Linode had its humble beginnings on this day seven years ago with just a handful of servers, a whole lot of time invested in code, and a dream to bring the benefits of virtualization to the masses. Over the past seven years we’ve seen cloud computing and virtualization explode into an industry unto itself, and [...]

Linode sponsors YAPC, fosscon, and SELF

June 10, 2010 8:52 am

Linode is happy to support three conferences being held later this month: YAPC – The Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPCs) are grassroots symposia on the Perl programming language promoted by The Perl Foundation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code. We sponsored and [...]

Community Library Contributions

May 19, 2010 3:45 pm

We’re proud to announce our new Community Contributions program. This program is ideal for fans of open source software, empowering members of our community to make it even easier to deploy more awesome systems on the Linode platform. With a full-time team devoted to writing, editing, and testing Linode Library articles, we’ve created a great [...]

Linode Now Supported on Cloudkick

February 2, 2010 3:14 pm

Linode is pleased to have been selected by Cloudkick as their newest supported provider. Cloudkick is an award-winning utility for efficient cloud server management; leveraging technologies such as the Linode API, their Web 2.0 application unites easy administration, detailed server health monitoring, and automated alerts to make a busy administrator’s life all that much simpler. [...]

Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

January 15, 2010 1:46 pm

Recent media coverage of cyber attacks appearing to originate from China against Google and other companies have mentioned a Linode VPS being involved.  No Linodes were involved in malicious activity related to this event.  In fact, it was Google itself that chose to use Linode to aid in their investigation of the attacks.  Google has [...]

Happy New Year, and New Employees

January 1, 2010 12:00 am

We wanted to thank you for your business and wish you a Happy New Year!  2009 continued our trend of growth, both in customer base, and features and offerings.  Linode continues to grow as a company, and as such we’re pleased to announce three new hires: Brett Kaplan and Peter Sandin have joined Linode as [...]

Linode expands into Europe!

December 7, 2009 2:01 pm

For a while now we’ve recommended our Newark and Atlanta datacenters to our European customers, which both have under 100 ms latency to the UK. However, there is nothing better than having your services closer to you and your clients. So today, we are proud to announce a brand new Linode deployment in London, England, [...]

Linode stomps competition in performance benchmark

December 4, 2009 2:13 pm

Eivind Uggedal, author of the free wasitup.com website monitoring service, recently posted an exhaustive performance comparison of cloud/VPS providers and their benchmarks over time. The post compares Linode, Rackspace, Slicehost, Amazon’s EC2, and Prgmr, and tests performance of Unixbench, SQL-bench, and page rendering times using Django and PostgreSQL and SQLite. This quote from the article [...]

Danny Ariti joins Linode

November 5, 2009 8:11 pm

We’re excited to announce that Danny Ariti has joined the Linode team as a Customer Support Liaison Extraordinaire. Danny is from the land down under in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia — which is about 14 hours ahead of Linode Headquarters — where he’ll be contributing to our night shift support coverage. Danny was previously with [...]


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