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I would like for a few of you waiting for the upgrades on hosts 9-26 to test a self-serve migration feature in the LPM before releasing it to the masses. Once you accept (by clicking a button) your Linode will enter a "Migration Queue". The queue limits the number of concurrent migrations of Linodes per […]

I’ve updated our Fedora distro to FC6. I’m pretty sure this distro requires a 2.6 kernel (which new deployments now default to). Let me know how it goes. Thanks, -Chris

The Big Announcement: Double the Resources![/size] [b]100% Resource Increase![/b] 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! 🙂 [b]Standard plans now include:[/b] Linode 128 becomes [b]Linode 256 – […]

Check it out by logging in with this URL: https://www.linode.com/members/index.cfm?redirect=/members/dashboard.cfm No more jumping around to create/edit/delete images and config profiles. Thoughts? -Chris

Podcast: The Return of User-Mode Linux [url=http://www.virtual-strategy.com/]Virtual Strategy Magazine[/url] speaks with Jeff Dike, author and maintainer of User-Mode Linux and Christopher Aker, president of Linode, a hosting company that offers virtual machines running on UML. Article: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/article/articleview/1874/1/64/ MP3: http://virtual-strategy.com/podcasts/2007-02-13_UML_Linode.mp3 I’ll provide a transcript in the next few days for those that requested it. -Chris

I’m pleased to announce that in addition to Fremont, CA and Dallas, TX datacenters, we now have machines located in Atlanta, GA. There are a few more details on the “[url=https://www.linode.com/products/network.cfm]Our Network[/url]” page. For latency comparison, you can ping 64.22.71.1 . Please open a support ticket if you’re interested in migrating to that datacenter. -Chris

Dear Linode.com Members, We’re planning some big upgrades in the very near future, but here’s something to hold you over until then — an 28% RAM increase! Stay tuned for the big announcement! In the meantime: Linode 100 becomes [b]Linode 128[/b] Linode 150 becomes [b]Linode 192[/b] Linode 200 becomes [b]Linode 256[/b] Linode 300 becomes [b]Linode […]

33% Disk Space added to all Plans, Reduced Disk Space Cost[/size] [b]Disk Space Cost reduced[/b] We’ve lowered the price of extra hard disk space to $2/month per GiB. [b]Standard plans now include:[/b] Linode 100 w/ 4096 MB (4 GB) Linode 150 w/ 6144 MB (6 GB) Linode 200 w/ 8192 MB (8 GB) Linode 300 […]

I’ve just deployed a Gentoo 2006.1 template filesystem. Available now through the Distro Wizard. Enjoy! -Chris

I’m very pleased to announce that Tom Asaro has joined Linode’s team. Tom has spent the past 8 years as the IT Manager for one of the two largest framing contractors in the United States and its subsidiary, a tourism firm that furnishes high end trips throughout Asia. Part of his responsibilities included building and […]

Ubuntu 6.06 now available through the Distro Wizard. [url=http://www.ubuntulinux.org/][img]https://www.linode.com/images/logos/ubuntu_logo.png[/img][/url] Installed pacakges… [code]adduser apt apt-utils aptitude base-files base-passwd bash belocs-locales-bin bind9-host bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox-initramfs bzip2 console-common console-data console-tools coreutils cpio cramfsprogs cron dash debconf debconf-i18n debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common diff discover1 discover1-data dmsetup dnsutils dosfstools dpkg dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs ed eject fdutils file findutils ftp gcc-3.3-base gcc-4.0-base […]