Linode Blog

The Linode Block Storage service allows you to create and attach additional storage volumes to your Linode instances.

Per our last post, we wanted to provide a brief follow up on the status of the Meltdown mitigation at Linode.

With the holidays over, we’ll be back on the road attending conferences, hackathons, and meetups. Our team will be scattered across the West Coast, East Coast, and Midwest. If you see us at an event you’re attending then stop by and say hello! PennApps XVII Philadelphia, PA | January 19-21 We’re not heading far for […]

A number of serious security vulnerabilities affecting many CPU architectures were disclosed this week (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, and CVE-2017-5754) by Google’s Project Zero team and others. Here's what we know and our current status.

Linode is all over the map for fall events this year. See below whether we’re coming to an event near you. Hope to see you there! Node. js Interactive Vancouver, BC | October 4-6 We’re leaving the U.S. from October 4-6 for Node.js Interactive in Vancouver. Don’t worry, all our swag is coming with us! […]

Super Meetup Philly Philadelphia, PA | August 14 Join us, Technical.ly Philly and other local tech and entrepreneurial resources on August 14 for one super meetup. We’ll be there to talk , what positions we’ve got open, and to overall meet new friends – like you! FOSSCON Philadelphia, PA | August 26 On August 26, […]

As we outlined in our last network update, our network engineering department has been hard at work revamping our entire Internet-facing network by turning up gobs of capacity and directly peering with hundreds of networks all over the globe. Since then, we have extended our network backbone to all datacenters in North America and Europe. This […]

We’re celebrating our 14th birthday! We’d like to thank you, our customers, for your business and support. I’d also like to thank our entire staff for their dedication and commitment to you and to each other. We’ve got a great team helping great customers. Shameless plug: we’re hiring! It’s been a busy year – we’ve […]

Happy Valentine’s Day! While our standard instances offer a balance of RAM, CPU, and storage and are great for general use-cases, some workloads (and budgets) would benefit greatly from specialization. Because of these varying needs we’re announcing our first specialized instance family: high-memory instances and also a new $5 Linode. The Linode lineup grows. High Memory […]

We are proud to announce the opening of our ninth datacenter: Tokyo 2. There has been high demand for additional Linode capacity in this region and we’re excited to open up availability. Tokyo 2 offers all of the features and services as our other datacenters, at standard Linode pricing. Connectivity into Tokyo 2 features a […]

Linode has completed initial Internet capacity upgrades in all facilities. All of our data centers are now multi-homed with several tier-1 transit providers and the largest peering exchanges in the world. This marks a milestone in Linode’s history: we now manage our own true service provider network, allowing us to deliver robust and reliable connectivity. […]