Chers membres de Linode.com,
Aujourd'hui, 16 juin 2005, Linode.com fête ses deux ans d'existence. L'année écoulée a été très fructueuse - les abonnements à Linode et le nombre d'hôtes en ligne ont doublé depuis l'année dernière à la même époque. J'ai embauché le premier employé de Linode. Nous avons continué à améliorer le service que nous offrons.
Voici un aperçu de ce que nous avons prévu pour l'année prochaine :
[b]Le mouvement vers Xen[/b]
[url=http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/]Xen[/url] est une technologie qui permet à un système unique d'être partitionné en plusieurs domaines, ou systèmes d'exploitation invités. Les systèmes d'exploitation invités sous Xen ne sont pas limités à Linux, bien que pour notre objectif nous nous concentrerons initialement sur la fourniture de Linux. Le principal avantage par rapport à UML du point de vue de l'utilisateur final est la performance. Xen fonctionne à une vitesse presque native, alors qu'UML peut entraîner une surcharge pratique de 50 à 100 %.
Nous avons déjà mis en place la prise en charge de Xen dans le [url=https://www.linode.com/products/controlpanel.cfm]LPM[/url], il s'agit maintenant d'attendre que certaines fonctionnalités nécessaires, du moins pour nous, soient codées dans Xen (prise en charge de la PAE).
[b]Infrastructure de stockage partagé[/b]
Actuellement, chaque hôte possède des disques durs qui contiennent les systèmes de fichiers Linode pour cet hôte. Comme on peut s'en douter, les disques durs peuvent tomber en panne, ce qui entraîne des problèmes pour cet hôte spécifique. Cela limite également la quantité d'espace disque que nous pouvons offrir à tous les plans car la quantité d'espace sur chaque hôte est fixe.
Le passage à une infrastructure de stockage en réseau a pour but de nous libérer de la contrainte de l'espace limité et de fournir une configuration redondante et à sécurité intégrée afin d'éliminer les problèmes qui surviennent lorsque les disques tombent en panne.
[b]Xen + Shared Storage = Live Migrations[/b]
L'utilisation conjointe de Xen et du stockage partagé signifie que nous pouvons "Live Migrate", ou déplacer des Linodes basées sur Xen sur différents hôtes alors qu'elles sont toujours en cours d'exécution, de manière totalement invisible pour l'utilisateur final. Cela peut être utile pour équilibrer en temps réel la charge des Linodes sur différents hôtes, ou pour déplacer les Linodes vers un autre ensemble d'hôtes pendant qu'un hôte spécifique du cluster est en maintenance. Des trucs sympas.
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J'espère que cela vous donne une bonne idée de ce qui vous attend. Linode.com s'engage à fournir la meilleure plateforme de serveur virtuel disponible. C'est pourquoi, au nom de Linode.com, je tenais à vous exprimer ma gratitude pour votre travail, vos suggestions et vos contributions à la communauté Linode.
Je vous prie d'agréer, Monsieur le Président, l'expression de mes salutations distinguées,
Christopher S. Aker
Commentaires (27)
I’ve been here almost the whole time, since July 2003. It’s been amazing watching Linode grow from just a handful of hosts to the dozens and dozens there are now. It was a fantastic service then, and somewhat unbelievably, it’s gotten better and better ever since.
My favorite was 1GB HDD -> 2GB HDD -> 3GB HDD. As soon as I’d get close to running out of space, there’d be more! Free!
Caker, the plans you’ve outlined for the upcoming year are very exciting. Thanks for making Linode the perfect tool for so many uses.
This is the best hosting company I have ever partnered with, hands down.
Well done Caker. 😆 😆 😆
Ron
First and foremost, Happy birthdaaay!!! Where’s the party?
I’ve been with Linode since april 2004 and I don’t remember being sorry throughout my time here. Excelent job! 😉
I am too eagerly awaiting the new changes!
Bravo! Congratulations caker (and mikegrb).
/me passes champagne around
Xen is an exciting thing, even now while it’s still maturing. I’m very much looking forward to Linode migrating to it.
Ive only been here for about 3 months. But man I tell you what this is by far the best service ever. Since I have been with you guys I have signed up with other companies just to see how they compare with linode so I can post reviews on my blogg and make people aware about how crappy they are. And let me tell you Linode is the best and hopefully always will be, Dont stray away from here guys, you will be missing out on something spectacular.
Congrats Linode.com! Two years strong and many more to come. 8)
I cant wait for the Migration, Xen has already proved itself to be a powerful OS Virtulization kernel, and I think the transition will be welcomed here.
Congratulations!
I’ve been here since August 2003. I’m especially happy that Linode was able to, after much work on their part, eliminate the load spike problem which had been plagueing early linodes. My Linode has been humming along so smoothly for months and months now that I hardly even bother to check my munin graphs for problems anymore. Great Linode performance and support is making my system administration skills rusty, and that’s a good thing!
My only request for the future is to add more disk space, and more memory if possible, to the plans. I’m approaching 90% full on my filesystem and so far Linode has saved the day by adding more disk space to the plans right when I needed it, but it’s getting close to that time again!
It’s been an amazing and wonderful two years.
/me raises his glass
Here’s to another two!
Yeah, I fully love everything about Linode, and the UML system has been perfect for what I needed. If Xen is gonna be even better, you’ll have a fully satisfied customer for a long time.
-tiz
P.S.: The best part is the honesty of caker and mike, and I’ve learned a bunch and been able to teach in the IRC channel which has been a great resource. I also feel that I can help mike and caker out at times with answering questions when their time could be better suited at keeping this great service working well.
I love this service. I’ve been here 18 months and it keeps getting better. Happy birthday and thank you.
And since I’m an alcoholic, and I’m always looking for a reason to celebrate…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINODE! *CHEERS*
-tiz
Wow, how the time flies! I’ve been here since almost the beginning (my billing history starts exactly two years ago today), and I’ve been quite happy with the service. I’m looking forward to Xen – it looks very promising. At home I now have a FC4 system that includes Xen, and it’s looking like it can do quite a lot.
Congratulations! You deserve it Caker.
Been here since August 2003 and only had a couple of problems in all that time which is amazingly good.
Cheers to caker! 😆
Just checked my billing history goes back to October 2003… not far from being with linode 2 years myself cant believe its been that long already…
I joined early & have been a happy customer of linode ever since. Service over the past two years has been excellent and response time from Australia is good.
Dear Caker,
On this year annyversary, i hope we will get a apecial discount from linode, it will make us more royal to linode 🙂
i am joining linode start from August,2005
This month is my shell anniversary
Regards,
aries
How about -5%? I mean, with the great customer support, fast response times, and just plain cool having a root account I think a -5% discount is a good idea!
Linode is already a great deal, and you’re only talking about $1/month for those of us on Linode64. I think I’d rather continue to get disk space and bandwidth bumps, as well as more work on Xen, than save $1/month.
I said *negative* 5%. I was trying to be a smart arse.
[quote:e15fb37226=”harleypig”]I said *negative* 5%. I was trying to be a smart arse.[/quote]
Oh. My bad! Went right over my head.
i don’t think so if more diskspace will give us more benefit, maybe caker should give a special reward for a royal customer like discount 10 % or etc for monthly payment, this is just my opinion
Regards,
aries
What members of which royal families have accounts on Linode? I’m curious. I didn’t even think about the possibility of royals being geeks.
I dont think he meant he’s part of a royal family … after all, wouldn’t that be a bit messed up? royal family members asking for 5-10% discount (not to say linode prices are < $100) 😛
Okay, bad jokes are flying left and right. If you’re lucky, they go right over your head.
I think it’s time to declare the two year anniversary thread officialy finished…
DUCK! It’s a pun!
A bit late, but, congrats! 🙂