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!

Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” (release notes) is now available for deployment in the Linode Manager. For help getting started with deploying a distribution, we’ve written a deployment guide that will prove useful. If you wish to upgrade from an older distribution, we’ve written a guide for that process as well.

Canonical, as always, will support Ubuntu 11.10 for only 18 months. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS remains available in the Linode Manager, which will be supported by the developers until April 2015.

This new facility will service the growing Asia Pacific demand for low-latency cloud services, and joins the growing number of options for your Linode Cloud deployments. The Tokyo facility delivers all of our services including Linodes, Managed Backups, and NodeBalancers.

There is no premium for placing Linode instances in our Asia Pacific location. Pricing for this location is the same as our other facilities.

You can use our speedtest page to test latency and download speeds from Tokyo or any of our six facilities. We can easily migrate your Linodes from one facility to another — just open a support ticket and we’ll take care of you.

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

NodeBalancer is a managed load-balancer-as-a-service (lbaas), built upon a high-available cloud cluster architecture. Placing a NodeBalancer in front of your Linode cloud servers allows you to scale your applications and service horizontally and also adds conveniences like being able to perform rolling upgrades across your fleet without affecting existing sessions.

A NodeBalancer is $19.95/mo and can balance multiple ports at no additional cost. Public network transfer is deducted from your existing Transfer Pool. For complete details, please see

• NodeBalancer Product Page
• NodeBalancer Howto
• NodeBalancer Reference Guide
• NodeBalancer API

You’ll notice a new ‘NodeBalancer’ tab in the Linode Manager where you can manage your NodeBalancers.  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

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!

Enjoy!