We are also beginning limited trials of large IPv6 allocations routed to Linodes. If you’d like to take part in the trial please open a ticket and we’ll do our best to accommodate your needs.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that we are lowering pricing again, this time for data transfer. Effective September 1st, 2011, all customers will no longer be charged for any inbound data transfer. We are also reducing our transfer overage fees to be the same as the pre-pay rates.

All incoming bandwidth into your Linode Cloud server or NodeBalancer is 100% free of charge, in all of our facilities. This means you can upload an unlimited amount of data to your Linode without having to pay for any of the incoming data transfer. As an example, if you were paying for extra transfer (beyond what comes bundled with your Linodes), and 40% of your total transfer was inbound, you will now be paying 40% less in transfer costs than you were previously.

We are also eliminating the penalty one would be paying for going over their transfer quota. The old ‘overage fee’ was $0.15/GB and is now the same as the pre-pay rate: $0.10/GB. One less thing for you to worry about, since the pricing is now the same.

Cloud Bandwidth Pricing (Effective September 1st, 2011):

NOTE: Linodes come bundled with transfer, which is then combined into the Transfer Pool.

We appreciate you and hope this saves you lots of money.

Enjoy!
-Chris

Press release.

Christopher S. Aker
Linode founder and CEO

FOSSCON – July 23

Philadelphia, PA – ‘Free software is all about community and this is a very grassroots event, organized by the community and for the community.’  We’ll be attending with swag and giving a lightning talk.

OSCON – July 25-29

Portland, OR – The Oregon Convention Center will host the O’Reilly open source convention, where thousands gather with like-minded individuals to learn and share new ideas. Enjoy the speakers and events, but most of all be sure to come and visit us at booth #522.

HostingCon – August 8-10

San Diego, CA – The premier conference and trade show for the hosting services industry. Linode will be attending en masse. Come visit!

Hope we get to see you!

-Chris

When I started working on Linode almost a decade ago in late 2002, there was one thing I knew for certain: that it was going to be a success.  My measure of success at that time was far more humble than Linode’s current reality, and it still is, which is why I find such amazement in what we have accomplished over the past eight years and how much change to employees’ lives is owed to Linode.  People have moved here from across the country, founded relationships, have gotten married (including one ceremony performed *AT* the office) and started having children and raising families.  I am proud of the personal and professional accomplishments our motley crew of teammates has achieved.

Over the past 12 months we have grown to over 40,000 customers and taken revenue to 140% over the prior 12 month period.  That’s a doubling of revenue every nine months or so.  We’ve doubled the number of employees.  We refined our managed Backup Service, quietly released a completely revamped Linode Manager interface and API, upgraded our network capacity in all five facilities across the US and Europe, made significant progress in our IPv6 capabilities, been able to sponsor numerous Linux and F/OSS conferences, and built out our Linode Library documentation project to over 400 guides and how-tos.  It is without a doubt that the momentum we’ve accrued and plans we have in motion will yield another bountiful list of accomplishments over these next 12 months.

Celebrating our success includes you, our customer.  In honor of our birthday we are increasing disk space on all plans by +25%.  This is available now to both new and existing Linodes.  To take advantage of your new space you can simply resize your existing disk image by clicking on the image and entering in the new size.

Thanks for a great year and enjoy the upgrade!

Sincerely,
Christopher S. Aker
Linode founder & CEO

SELF – June 10-12

Spartanburg, SC – If you want to learn about Linux and Open Source software, this is the community event for you. The 2011 SouthEast LinuxFest is sure to be a successful event and people of all skill levels are welcome to attend. Socialize, learn and share tips and tricks with one another here.

We’ll be at Table A.

YAPC – June 27-29

Asheville, NC – The Yet Another Perl Conference is a technical conference for those interested in Perl programming. Every person who attends is sure to learn something new.  In attendance will be Larry Wall, Allison Randal, Damian Conway, and of course a few of us from Linode.

Come find our table…you won’t miss it!

We are thrilled to sponsor and be a part of these two conferences and hope all who attend will take the time to talk with us. Hope to see you there!

IPv4 was released in 1981 as a 32-bit range that provided roughly 4.3 billion IP addresses. Unfortunately, in just a few years, the protocol was identified to have scalability problems under the Classful Network architecture it employed at the time. As a result, the IETF was formed in 1991 and replaced the previous addressing architecture with Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) with the goal of slowing the growth of routing tables across the Internet and ultimately the depletion of IPv4 addresses.

With IPv4 address exhaustion inevitable, in 1998 the IETF announced a new protocol known as IPv6. This new protocol uses 128 bit addresses capable of supporting 340 undecillion addresses.  To put that into context it amounts to: the existing Internet times the Internet times the Internet times the Internet worth of addresses.

Obviously this allows for many more devices on the network and while also eliminating the need for Network Address Translation (NAT).

However, adoption of IPv6 has been pitifully slow. In fact, according to a recent study by Arbor Networks, IPv6 represents less than 1% of all IP traffic seen on the Internet and very few cloud hosting providers have stepped up to help make this necessary transition possible for their subscribers.

The essence of the problem comes down to this: service providers don’t want IPv6 because there is no subscriber demand, subscribers don’t want it due to lack of content, and the content providers don’t want it unless there are subscribers. Nevertheless, the tipping point for the transition is around the corner and it is better to begin testing and migrating now rather than being left out in the game of IPv4 musical chairs.  We don’t want to be part of the problem.

Linode – part of the solution

While this industry-wide problem has been challenging, Linode has accelerated its efforts towards IPv6 adoption. Subsequently, Linode is proud to announce today native IPv6 support.  This will be a phased roll-out across the facilities, starting with immediate availability in Fremont, Newark in a week or so, followed by Dallas.  For current IPv6 availability please see the Linode IPv6 Status and Frequently Asked Questions page which will be maintained here: http://www.linode.com/IPv6/.

Enjoy!

UPDATE 2011-05-05 – Newark online and IPv6 Pools available

UPDATE 2011-05-26 – Dallas is now IPv6 enabled!

UPDATE 2011-05-31 – There’s now an ‘Enable IPv6′ link on your Linode’s Remote Access subtab.

UPDATE 2011-12-20 – London and Atlanta IPv6 Enabled – blog post.

Pycon – March 11-12

Atlanta, GA – The largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.

Booth #315

SXSW – March 14-17

Austin, TX – Five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology and scores of exciting networking events showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the international community has to offer.

Booths #439-441 in Exhibit Hall 4

POSSCON – March 23-25

Columbia, SC – The goal of the event is to provide affordable access to quality open source education in the southeast U.S.

Booth #9

We are excited to be sponsoring these events and hope to see you there!

We are giving away $100,000 in Linode services!  Starting this Friday December 17th at 9:00 AM Eastern the first 1,000 new customers to sign up will each receive $100 in service credit.

Here’s how it works:  Be one of the first 1,000 people to sign up after 9:00 AM Eastern this Friday. If you make the cut, a $100 credit will immediately be placed onto your account to use as you see fit. That’s it! The only fine-print is that the credit is non-transferable and non-refundable.

We’re excited to be able to make this offer and hope that everyone who has been thinking about trying Linode will take this opportunity to experience our service and support first hand.

If you have a Twitter account, please spread the word!

Overall
1st Place: Beer Checkin by Indiana Coders
2nd Place: Owe Me Cash by Platform45
3rd Place: Choons.fm by Nuby on Rails

Solo Division Winner
tldr.it by My Other Car Is Your Face

Appearance
Commendable Kids by Agile Nomads

Completeness
Go vs Go by Black and White

Innovation
Warsquare by acts_as_ninjas

Most Useful
Awesome Fontstacks by The Dudes

A complete list of all the applications is available here.

Congratulations again to the winners and thank you to all of the competitors for making the event so much fun.