Future-Proofing Legacy Media Workflows with Akamai Object Storage

Sign-up for a Linode and pay annually and we’ll give you additional disk space- FREE! Pay annually and get the following disk space added at no charge: Linode 360 – additional 5 GB for 15 GB Total Linode 540 – additional 7.5 GB for 22.5 GB Total Linode 720 – additional 10 GB for 30 […]

Updates for Red Hat 9.0 Distros. The Red Hat 9.0 Small distro is now only 670 MB minimum size. If you’ve already deployed Red Hat 9.0 small or large, run the following commands to bring yours up to date: [code] # Remove some wasted space (About 60 megs or so) rpm -e wireless-tools telnet-server hwcrypto […]

I’ve added a feature for booting into single user mode. Single user mode boots the system only into, you guess it, single user mode. Its useful for running fsck or repairs on disks, or trying to recover a broken system. The “single user mode” option can be set for each Configuration Profile. You could even […]

I’ve opened up some slots on a new server for Linode 64s that came online this evening. It’s a nice machine – dual 2.66 Ghz Xeons, 3GB RAM. It also has an upgraded host kernel and upgraded network filtering. Enjoy! -Chris

Create a disk image, formatted to ext3 (or whatever) Go into your config profile Find an empty /dev/ubd* device – probably /dev/ubdc if you’ve got a root and a swap already. Select your new drive label from the drop-down. Save the config Reboot your linode Now, inside the Linode, you can mount it like so: […]

If you purchase additional IP addresses for your Linode, you must reboot your machine before the IP addresses will function correctly. Also, remember that the first IP address is used when your DHCP client requests network info. This can cause problems if your IP was 64.5.53.20 and now you’ve added 64.5.53.100 because when sorted, the […]

The Red Hat 9.0 (Small) distro has been updated to contain a fix for sm-client, part of sendmail, failing to start. If you’re using the RH9 small distro and see this when starting sendmail: Starting sendmail: [ OK ] Starting sm-client: No local mailer defined QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set or this in your […]

Welcome to Linode.com. Linode.com has been in development for over 7 months. We’re proud to announce that we’re taking orders as of today, June 16th, 2003. If you have any questions or comments, please post them in the “Pre-sales Questions and Answers” or email service@linode.com. -Chris