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At Linode, we’re incredibly passionate about helping our customers. That means more than just answering tickets or phone calls—we’re here to solve real problems for people trying to get stuff done. This is why we’re deeply involved in the greater customer support community, and for us, there’s no better community than Elevate. This November, we’ll […]

In this blog post, I’ll define high availability (HA), explain the various components that go into a basic HA architecture, and examine how to build simple HA infrastructure for a web application.

At Linode, we’re extremely proud of our Customer Support and Trust & Safety teams and the work they do together – they’re teams staffed by real humans who share an important goal: keeping our platform safe and free of abuse and fraud, and crafting policies that keep our customers safe. This means that when you […]

We built Linode Object Storage to make it easier and more affordable for developers to manage unstructured data such as content assets, as well as sophisticated and data-intensive storage challenges around artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Linode introduced One-Click apps to make it as easy as possible for our customers to deploy fully-configured apps in the cloud. We’ve built a growing library and today we’re adding two popular and highly requested apps to it: Plesk and cPanel & WHM® . These new additions to our One-Click library further our mission of […]

Hello! I’m Ryan Syracuse from Linode’s Technical Writing Team. Here at Linode, we believe our successful 16-year tenure as a cloud hosting company is a direct reflection of our core values and competencies. This involves understanding future trends in large-scale modern Linux administration—ahead of the curve—and sharing these insights with the larger Linux community. Knowledge […]

Here at Linode, we’re always working on new and improved services, feature enhancements, and integrations, so you can build and deploy what you need faster. We want to make sure you have the confidence to use our products with ease. That’s why our technical documentation team produces helpful content for you every month.  New Rancher […]

Linode Systems Engineer Jon “jfred” Frederickson shares his experience building out the IP whitelisting feature for running Kubernetes on Linode. As Linode’s engineering team built out our Kubernetes features, we hit plenty of obstacles, as expected. However, one challenge arose that we weren’t anticipating: how to whitelist applications running in Kubernetes on the infrastructure we […]

Rancher 2.3 makes it easier to use Linode for Kubernetes As the Linode community continues to adopt Docker and Kubernetes for their workloads, we started working with Rancher to make it easier to deploy and manage your Kuberenetes clusters with Rancher on Linode. Back in April, we launched the Linode Node Driver for Rancher and […]

At Linode, we’re passionate for Python! Whenever we get an opportunity to share in and celebrate all the cool things going on in the Python community, we simply can’t pass up the chance. This Friday and Saturday we’re back at it once again, cruising up to the Big Apple for PyGotham, an eclectic Python-centric conference […]

Hi! Andrew here—developer at Linode. In the process of building a managed Kubernetes solution, I’ve discovered and created several tricks that I use to make daily tasks with Kubernetes easier. I wanted to share these five here with you and I hope you find them as helpful as I have. 1. The Meta-Shell Trick I first […]