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We've created a private Local Area Network (LAN), in each datacenter, upon which Linodes can join, without having to worry about the transfer counting against their monthly network quota. This feature allows for some interesting possibilities. For instance, creating sets of front-end webserver Linodes and back-end database server Linodes which communicate over this private network. Database replication, backups and rsync also come to mind. Oh, and IP Failover works for both public and private IPs.

To get in on the fun, log-in to the members' site and head to this page. Click the button to have a private IP address assigned to your Linode. Reboot your Linode and bring up the new IP on eth1 -- an example command for doing this is provided on the page. You will need to complete these steps for each Linode you want to be able to communicate over the back-end network.

This only works for Linodes within the same datacenter. The Linodes do not have to be under one account/linked.

So, how much is this feature? You guessed it: FREE!

Enjoy!

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Alert Notifications

You can now get notified via email when your Linode crosses a specific threshold, for several statistics. Alerts are checked once per hour.

Currently, the available parameters are:

CPU usage (two hour average)
Disk IO-ops/sec (two hour average)
Network traffic rate in (two hour average)
Network traffic rate out (two hour average)
Monthly Transfer Quota (percentage)

You can enable/disable the alerts and set your threshold values from the Alerts page, located off the Utilities sub-tab of the members' site.

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Tis the season and all, and since it feels good to give I just couldn't resist. We've increased the RAM on all plans by 20%, for new and existing customers!

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

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I've been busy lately and have got some great new stuff for you:
Ajax Job Queue Updates - If you've got JavaScript enabled, your browser will check for changes in job progress more frequently, updating the job queue when there are changes. When a job finishes, the other elements on the page are updated as well.
Job Queue Progress Bar - There is now a progress bar displayed at the top of the job queue when your Linode has incomplete jobs in the queue. The progress will increase one unit when a job is started, and another unit when a job completes. This doesn't indicate true progress of long jobs (such as image transfers)... yet!
Lish SSH Keys after Migrations - Previously after a migration, you would have to deploy SSH Keys for Lish access again for your new host. Now, this is taken care of for you.
Adding Lish SSH Keys - Previously you would need to add your existing SSH Keys again with new keys, now we include your existing keys for you in the form field for submitting keys.
Boot from Lish without Requiring Boot from the Website first - If you have never booted a profile on your current host and have only one profile, the boot command with no arguments will boot that profile. Previously boot always booted the last booted profile so you had to boot from the website the first time on a new host.
Boot/Reboot a Specific Profile from Lish - The boot and reboot commands in Lish now accept an optional argument indicating a configuration profile you wish to use for the boot job, previously the last booted profile was always used.
List Configuration Profiles from Lish - Lish has a new command 'configs' which will list the configuration profiles defined for a Linode.
View Config Profile Details - Lish has a new command 'config N' which will display the details for a specific configuration profile.
View Job Queue from Lish - Lish has a new command 'jobs' which will display the job queue for your Linode.

There's lots more coming in the future and let us know in the Feature Requests forum if you've got something you'd love to see us implement.

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Linode now has a Pastebin site using the software developed by Paul Dixon.

[The] pastebin is here to help you collaborate on debugging code snippets. If you're not familiar with the idea, most people use it like this:

* submit a code fragment to pastebin, getting a url like http://p.linode.com/1234
* paste the url into an IRC or IM conversation
* someone responds by reading and perhaps submitting a modification of your code
* you then view the modification, maybe using the built in diff tool to help locate the changes

You can reach the site at a variety of URLs:
http://pastebin.linode.com/
http://paste.linode.com/
http://linbin.linode.com/
http://pb.linode.com/
http://p.linode.com/

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Clone a Linode's Configuration/disks to another Linode

This feature enables you to clone a Linode's configuration and data over to another Linode that is linked to your account. You can select an entire configuration profile to clone -- and this will automatically create the configuration profile in the target Linode, and copy all disk images associated with that configuration profile over to the targeted Linode -- or, you can pick out individual disk images to copy over.

This new feature is located here, off the new Utilities sub-tab.

Implementing this was more complicated than I initially thought, so some testing would be appreciated. Keep in mind, copying large disk images across datacenters will take time.

Enjoy!
-Chris

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I've added a new utility which, in effect, allows you to do some of the whole "High Availability" clustering thing, with IP failover between Linodes within the same data center. The utility does not manage or configure IP failover for you, but it does allow the selected IP addresses from linked Linodes to be brought up on other Linodes.

This new feature is located here, off the new Utilities sub-tab.

http://linux-ha.org/

-Chris

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Fedora Core 8 is available for install from the distro wizard.

I'm not a Fedora user so feel free to point out any deficiencies in the template

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Move or swap IPs across linked Linodes within the same data center

You can now move and/or swap IP addresses assigned from one Linode to another Linode that's under your account -- as long as they're in the same datacenter. This new feature is located here, off the new Utilities sub-tab.

Enjoy!
-Chris

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Datacenter selection on first log in

You can now select the geographic location of your Linode during the inital login! Here's how it works:

Upon your initial login (or the first "switch to" for a new Linode added to an existing account), if there's availability in any of our other datacenters for the Linode plan you've chosen then you will be presented with those choices and the option to move your Linode.

Enjoy!
-Chris

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