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An entire year has passed since Linode participated in World IPv6 Day. Since then we have worked hard to permanently enable IPv6 for all of our locations in support of the global launch of this new internet protocol taking place on June 6, 2012. World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment […]

When we were figuring out our NodeBalancer pricing model, we decided to make it simple (a philosophy we apply to most decisions) and to not nickel and dime you. And so we announced the NodeBalancer service with a fixed 5,000 concurrent connections limit and a fixed price of $19.95/month. Today we are pleased to announce NodeBalancer concurrent […]

Some of you may have noticed a few changes to the Linode Manger over the past few weeks, most notably that accessing your “My Profile” and the “Account -> Users & Permissions” subtab now require password re-authentication. The re-authentication is meant to protect your contact settings, password changes, and other preferences.  The re-auth lasts for […]

We have implemented sophisticated brute force protection for Linode Manager user accounts that combines a time delay on failed attempts, forced single threading of log in attempts from a given remote address, and automatic tarpitting of requests from attackers. These protections increase the time it would take for a successful brute force by a couple […]

Introducing a new API call: api_spec() – which generates the entire Linode API specification in machine readable format.  The structure generated contains all API classes and methods, and includes method parameters, their descriptions, data types, default values, and what errors may be thrown. A common problem when implementing API bindings or tools is that one […]

Over the last few weeks, Linode has sponsored and attended several open source conferences. POSSCON – March 28-29 This week we’re at POSSCON in Columbia, SC. The conference’s aim is to provide affordable access to quality open source education in the southeast U.S. Our very own Matt Cone will be giving a talk about his […]

Today we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Linode Cloud services in Tokyo, Japan! 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 […]

As we grow and work hard to reduce costs, increase scale, and optimize the efficiency of our operations, we are able to pass on the benefits of our efforts back to our customers. In fact, we have a very long history of increasing the value of our plans by adding resources and reducing pricing. We […]

I am incredibly proud to announce that Linode has been ranked number 298 by Inc. Magazine on their Inc. 500 List, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.  This is a testament of the devotion and dedication of our entire team to building great products and providing customer service and support that is […]

Linode is sponsoring and attending several conferences over these next few weeks. Many of us will be attending these fine conferences. 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 […]

So your website just went viral. Congrats! Now you have a new set of problems: How do you scale your application and services to meet your growing demand? How do you manage multiple Linodes all participating as a single system? How do you monitor the health of those Linodes, and take them in and out […]