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Bare metal is the ideal solution for customers with complex application, performance, availability, or security requirements. Traditionally, these requirements have only been met by purchasing hardware and deploying it on-premise. Linode’s bare metal service removes these barriers by providing a controlled, cloud-based environment to run applications directly on the server’s hardware. Bare metal servers combine […]

We’re proud to announce Linode is heading down under later this year for the launch of our newest data center: Linode Sydney. This will be our 11th data center worldwide and comes on the heels of our recent global expansion to Toronto and Mumbai. This is a significant milestone for us. From the early days […]

We recently received new information regarding our 2015 security incident which is relevant to Linode customers who activated their account before 2016. As detailed in our January 2016 blog post, we reset passwords for all users at that time after investigating unauthorized access to some customer accounts. This new information confirms the scope of database […]

The developer community is always looking for new resources to help them launch and scale their applications in the cloud. But finding those trusted resources is often a challenge. So today, we’re sharing 15 of the top developer blogs, podcasts and YouTube channels that we and our customers turn to for the insights that help […]

Between launching the Mumbai Data Center beta and introducing our GPU pilot, Linode’s docs team still found time to publish a new stack of helpful step-by-step guides. Take a look and learn something new. Deploying Kubernetes on Linode Kubernetes is quickly becoming the standard way to orchestrate containerized applications. Find out how it can make […]

Richard Myers is Vice President of Customer Support & Success at Linode. Here he shares his expertise on building a training team and why such an investment has already paid huge dividends for Linode and its customers. This post was originally published here. In 2016, Linode had a problem. Our Support Team was growing at […]

We’re proud to announce the opening of our newest data center: Mumbai, India. Home to more than 5 million software developers, India is one of the world’s fastest growing developer and technology regions, and our most requested international data center location. Linode Mumbai is our 10th global data center and was built with all our […]

This week we’re celebrating Linode’s 16th birthday and we want you to celebrate with us. Like we’ve done in the past we’re using our birthday to also celebrate you. Here’s what we’ve got in store: NodeBalancer pricing reduction Starting today, NodeBalancer pricing has been reduced from $20/mo to $10/mo, for both new and existing NodeBalancers. […]

This week Intel publicly disclosed a group of processor vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), also referred to as “ZombieLoad”. MDS affects systems that host virtual machines from varying security domains and/or that the system owner does not fully trust, which includes Linode's infrastructure and Linodes themselves.

We’re excited to announce the opening of our newest data center in Toronto, Canada. Linode Toronto is our 10th global data center and will allow our Canadian customers to deploy cloud workloads on Canadian soil.

Introducing our newest compute instance type: Dedicated CPU Instances Dedicated instances are optimized for workloads where consistent performance is required or where full-duty work (100% CPU all day, every day) needs doing. This includes build boxes, CI/CD, video encoding, machine learning, game servers, databases, data mining, and busy application servers. The underlying CPU resources for […]