Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

June 16, 2011 11:02 am

It is hard to believe that eight years have passed since Linode was launched.  What is the old adage – “A man who loves what he does will never work a day in his life”?  Or how about “Time flies when you’re having fun”?  Well, I can certainly attest to the truth of both.  I believe in this and want it for everyone – especially Linode employees.  It is important to me that everyone on the team loves what he/she does – both for their personal well being and the benefit of the company.  We’ve been very fortunate to find such talented, driven, and passionate people, all of whom share my enthusiasm for Linode.  These guys all love what they do, and they do it for you.

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

Filed under: upgrades, linode by caker

125 Responses

  1. Josh June 22nd, 2011 at 10:11 am

    You guys are ridiculous… ridiculously cool. Thanks!

  2. Patrick June 23rd, 2011 at 9:57 am

    This is a late notice for me, not sure how I missed it, but found it at the right time with storage issues on my end. Thanks for celebrating your awesome growth, success and a slice of the anniversary space cake.

  3. Dextro June 23rd, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    Thank you so much (and here I was thinking of shuffling my partitions a bit cause I needed more space in one of them). 😀

  4. kiti chigiri June 24th, 2011 at 7:39 am

    linode rocks.

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  6. Bola Owoade June 25th, 2011 at 5:23 am

    Thanks guys,

    As a newbie to anything Linux (Since January 2011) you guys have converted me to Linux which I love, because i use Linode off course.

    Keep up the great work and thanks for the extra space.

  7. Mrityunjay Kumar June 25th, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    Hey,

    This is really great guys.

    Thanks and happy anniversary.

  8. Frank June 25th, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    Thank you very much, Happy Birthday and keep the outstanding service

  9. Sol June 26th, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    Happy Birthday !
    and thanks heaps,
    ^_^

  10. Gurparit June 28th, 2011 at 4:15 am

    You folk are AWESOME! 😀 Keep up the amazing work!

  11. Revvi June 28th, 2011 at 5:21 am

    Happy birthday and thank you !

  12. kanna June 30th, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    ah ah ah I was thinking to had been stoned or whatever, figure it “I resized my disks and can’t remember when, or WHY?!”

    then realized that there was much more space allotted and *dang!* checked the news :)

    thanks for this, and for the great service!

  13. vowanson July 1st, 2011 at 3:30 am

    this is a great treat!

    thanks very much….

  14. David July 1st, 2011 at 7:52 pm

    Patrick: Not sure how I missed it either – but I’m happy – and thankful that Linode takes care of their customers. I’ve been SO happy since I signed on a little over a year ago. This upgrade in disk space coincides quite nicely with a minor adjustment I’m making on my shared (Linode) servers that I manage – doing some upgrades, and reconfiguring some things while adding some redundancy to the mix!

  15. VAXXi July 4th, 2011 at 3:46 am

    Happy birthday and many more years to come !

  16. Kevin McCaughey July 4th, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Congratulations on your achievement and thanks for the extra disk space! Linode is unparalleled and I thank my lucky stars I found it for my business.

  17. Tak July 6th, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    Well, I logged into my Linode account today after months of not paying it any heed … (that is actually a very GOOD thing — how many providers out there are so unstable that you are checking their site every other day for problems? Not so with Linode, I could go away for a year and everything would still be ticking!) … and got a VERY pleasant surprise! A pile of extra breathing room! First it was extra RAM… now extra DISK! Linode, you rock, happy belated birthday greetings too! Going to go add another two years right away! :-)

  18. David July 13th, 2011 at 10:37 am

    Thanks!! Linode is the best

  19. Tanner Williamson July 13th, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    Thank you Linode. Great service and value!

  20. Khang Tran July 14th, 2011 at 2:05 am

    THANK YOU! i will continue to be loyal customer for a very, very long time.

  21. Jake V July 14th, 2011 at 10:46 am

    Very awesome. Happy Birthday Linode! :)

  22. David Brown July 17th, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    Awesome, Happy Birthday.

    I love you guys.

  23. Richard Correia July 20th, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    Just when I needed those extra GBs … Simply rocks… I try my best to give similar service to my customers too, where they dont have to worry about my service …Rock solid …. Cheers,
    Richard
    India

  24. Yoav Aner July 21st, 2011 at 8:28 am

    Happy Birthday ! Linode truly rocks. We’ve been with you for a couple of year now, and we tried pretty much all the competition out there. Linode comes first each and every time and on pretty much every front.

    You don’t brag about having “fanatical” support, but it’s simply the best out there, and by far. Quick response time, professional, knowledgable.

    Your server offering is great, with a choice of data centres, an API, really nice interface and an iphone app.

    What more can we ask for?? (well, there are a few things on the roadmap I’m sure), but to be honest – Just keep up the good work. No fancy stuff. No bells and no whistles. Just solid hosting that works !

  25. Sigma Alpha September 20th, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    I don’t want to complain, I love linode and have been using it for about 2 years.

    However, recently I’ve had offers from local hosting providers that beat you on price, and this is high-priced Switzerland we’re talking about.

    For instance 1.5GB RAM cost as much as 768MB linode. A 3GB instance scost me as much as a Linode 1GB. The rest of the features is comparable.

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