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

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

Since Linode’s beginning we’ve continuously worked hard to provide the exceptional quality of service we feel our customers deserve. It’s been an honor and a privilege, and we’re incredibly proud of what Linode has become. You can bet Linode will continue to innovate, add features and services, and continue to grow as a company and a service, just as we’ve always done.

To commemorate this milestone and to show our appreciation for you, our customers, we’ve increased RAM across all our plans by about +42%. The new Linode Lineup looks like this: Linode 512, Linode 768, Linode 1024, Linode 1536, Linode 2048, Linode 4096 (4GB), Linode 8192 (8GB), Linode 12288 (12GB), Linode 16384 (16GB), Linode 20480 (20GB).

This upgrade is available immediately for existing and new customers. To take advantage of your new RAM, simply reboot once. That’s it!

Thank you for your business over the past seven years. We look forward to the next seven. Enjoy the resource increase.

Linode 360 goes from 12GB to 16GB
Linode 540 goes from 18GB to 24GB
Linode 720 goes from 24GB to 32GB
Linode 1080 goes from 32GB to 48GB
Linode 1440 goes from 48GB to 64GB
Linode 2880 goes from 96GB to 128GB

We appreciate your business and are pleased we’re able to continually increase our offerings and value. Thank you, and enjoy!

To take advantage of your Linode’s new space, simply log into the Linode Manager, shut down your Linode, and resize your disk existing disk by clicking on it and entering in a new size.  Alternatively, you could create another disk image and add it to your existing configuration profile, reboot, and mount it.

Again, on behalf of the Linode team, I thank you for your patronage.

Linode 300 becomes Linode 360
Linode 450 becomes Linode 540
Linode 600 becomes Linode 720
Linode 900 becomes Linode 1080
Linode 1200 becomes Linode 1440

You will need to reboot to acquire your extra RAM.

We appreciate your patronage, and we’re tickled that Linode has been able to give back to our customers with resource increases, just as we have a history of doing. But there is something you can do for us — we would appreciate it if you could spread the word about Linode by posting about us in your blogs and linking to our site, and telling your friends what you think of us.

Enjoy!
-Chris

Linode 300 goes from 8 to 10 GiB disk space
Linode 450 goes from 12 to 15 GiB disk space
Linode 600 goes from 16 to 20 GiB disk space
Linode 900 goes from 24 to 30 GiB disk space
Linode 1200 goes from 32 to 40 GiB disk space

Remember, annual payment gets you an additional 50% of space on top of that. Submit a support ticket if you’re interested in switching to annual payments.

Thank you for your business. Enjoy the free upgrade!

-Chris

Increased the RAM
Doubled the XFER
Eliminated setup fees for new signups

Linode 256 becomes Linode 300 with 200GiB XFER
Linode 384 becomes Linode 450 with 300GiB XFER
Linode 512 becomes Linode 600 with 400GiB XFER
Linode 768 becomes Linode 900 with 600GiB XFER
Linode 1024 becomes Linode 1200 with 800GiB XFER

Check the products page for more information.

To take advantage of the new RAM, please reboot your Linode.

Our prices are INSANE.

-Chris (aka, crazy caker)

We’ve doubled your resources, and finally have the brand new, faster hardware up and running for you to receive them. To migrate to this new hardware, please utilize the Migration Queue tool located here:

https://www.linode.com/members/migrate/

Come and get em!

Enjoy!
-Chris

As hinted at in various threads, the big announcement is here: We’ve doubled the resources on all our Linode plans! That’s double the RAM, double the disk space, double the transfer, and double the value!

Linode 128 becomes Linode 256 – 8GiB Disk
Linode 192 becomes Linode 384 – 12GiB Disk
Linode 256 becomes Linode 512 – 16GiB Disk
Linode 384 becomes Linode 768 – 24GiB Disk
Linode 512 becomes Linode 1024 – 32GiB Disk

Check the products page for more information.

Fremont: Those on hosts 56 and higher have already received the upgrades. For the remaining Fremont hosts, the upgrade/migration schedule with more details will be posted soon.

Dallas: We’re still acquiring more datacenter space to perform these upgrades. The other option is to migrate your Linode to another datacenter (IP change) and receive the upgrades immediately. If you want to do that, please open a Support Ticket.

EDIT: Dallas upgrades now available! Please see this thread.

Atlanta: Upgrades completed.

Fremont hosts include: hosts 9-26, 56-76
Dallas hosts include: hosts 1-8, 27-55
Atlanta hosts include: hosts 77 and up

Customers who pay annually also receive an additional 50% disk space on top of the new standard. Please fill out a support ticket if you’d like to switch to annual payments.

To take advantage of the extra space, you have a choice of:
[list][*] Resizing your existing filesystem to occupy the new space[list][*] Shutdown your Linode
[*] Members -> Disk Images -> Click on your root filesystem -> Enter in new size, and Save Changes
[*] Boot your Linode
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[*] Creating new empty disk images
[list][*]Members -> Disk Images, scroll down to “Create an Empty Disk Image”
[*] Enter a label (for example: “disk2″)
[*] Enter in the size (use the “Storage Summary” box in the upper-right corner)
[*] Choose “ext3″ for filesystem type, and Create Disk
[*] Members -> Configurations -> Click on your config
[*] Add your new “disk2″ to an open /dev/ubd? slot. Save
[*] Reboot your Linode
[*] Log into your Linode, and as root: “mount /dev/ubd[insert device letter here] /path/to/mountpoint” where path/to/mountpoint is an existing directory
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[*] Deploying more Linux Installations[list][*]Why, just use the Distro Wizard! Experiment with a new distro or something [/list]
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Thank you for your business! Enjoy!

-Chris