In 2003, one man with a passion for programming and a determination to do things differently with virtualization set out to build a company that would inevitably reshape the realm of possibilities for developers using VPSs. With heads-down focus and an eye for simplicity, Christopher S. Aker began building hardware that could be completely customized, computed ‘at-will,’ and spun up or down at a record-low cost. He emerged from his garage six months later and Linode was born.
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