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Every day companies are developing, deploying and delivering new solutions using the Linode cloud platform. For these organizations to provide responsive apps and keep experiences closer to their users, many require a decentralized, low-latency solution that puts their applications and systems nearer the network edge. With one of the world’s largest private global networks, Limelight […]

Block Storage is now available in ap-south (Singapore) and eu-west (London)!

Here's what you need to know for your Linode with regard to Spectre variants 3a and 4.

We are excited to announce the launch of our new private Bug Bounty program on HackerOne!

Linode's Block Storage service offering is now available in Frankfurt

We are happy to announce Block Storage is now available in us-east/Newark and us-central/Dallas! We will have availability in eu-central/Frankfurt within a few weeks. eu-west/London, ap-south/Singapore, and ap-northeast/Tokyo2 remain on schedule for Q2 2018. As noted in our prior post, Block Storage Volumes appear to Linodes as block devices and can be formatted and mounted […]

We are pleased to announce the new Linode Community Questions site! It’s a great place to ask questions, to share ideas and knowledge, to discuss Linode, Linux, the cloud, and everything else in the Linode ecosystem with peers and Linode team members. You’ll be able to start conversations, get help, give advice, and offer solutions. […]

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

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.

We’re happy to announce our newest feature: Payments via PayPal. You can now add credit to your account by transferring funds from a PayPal account. While any customer can use PayPal to fund their account, new customers will still need to sign up using a credit card. You can use PayPal from then on. This […]

Heads up everybody – a Linux vulnerability known as GHOST (CVE-2015-0235), discovered by Qualys, has recently been publicized. This particular vulnerability is a nasty one, since it allows for remote code execution. The vulnerability has been exhaustively documented in this Security Advisory, which you may find interesting. In short, the vulnerability exists within glibc in __ns_hostname_digits_dots(), which deals with hostname resolution […]