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Learn more about Linode’s robust and reliable networking backbone delivered through data centers located around the world.

Set Up WireGuard on Linode

This guide will show you how to install WireGuard, a fast and secure VPN, on Linode.
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NodeBalancers

NodeBalancers are built for high availability by load balancing incoming requests to your application over any number of Linodes. Expand without worry.
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Linode Network Backbone

Jun 27, 2017
by The Linode Security Team
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 […]
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Network Update: Multi-homed, Increased Transit, Peering

Nov 2, 2016
by The Linode Security Team
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. […]
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Network Status Updates – April 2016

May 2, 2016
by The Linode Security Team
In his January blog post, Alex Forster articulated that we have a plan in motion to upgrade the network across all of our data centers. We would like to share with everyone what has been done so far, and what still needs doing. Staffing up Since December 2015, we’ve added two new members to our […]
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Network Hotplug

Feb 28, 2014
by The Linode Security Team
Introducing Network Hotplug Now you can add, remove, or swap IPs on the fly, without the need to reboot your Linode.  Previously the network infrastructure rules that govern a Linode’s networking capabilities were only rebuilt on boot.  Now this is done automatically when you make changes, and without the need for a reboot, and will take effect […]
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Christopher Aker

Linode NextGen: The Hardware

Mar 18, 2013
by Christopher Aker
This is the second post in a series we’re doing about Linode: NextGen. The first post in the series focused on network upgrades we’re making. This post focuses on a new host specification, CPUs, a fleet refresh, and the deployment schedule for all these changes.  Oh, and this: We’re investing millions to make your Linodes […]
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Christopher Aker

Linode NextGen: The Network

Mar 7, 2013
by Christopher Aker
This is the first of a series of blog posts about an effort we’re calling Linode: NextGen. In the coming days, we’ll tell you about other improvements and changes, but today we want to let you know about network upgrades. We’re spending $1 million making our network faster. Way faster. Cisco Nexus 7000 routers. Cisco […]
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Christopher Aker

DNS AXFR ACLs and IPv6 masters

Apr 4, 2012
by Christopher Aker
Two new DNS Manager updates – AXFR ACLs and IPv6 masters for slave zones. Previously, if you needed the ability for others to transfer your zone from our authoritative nameservers, you could only enable it for everyone.  Now you can specify ‘any’, or a list of IPv4/IPv6 IPs and AXFRs will be limited to only […]
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Native IPv6 Now Available in All Locations

Feb 28, 2012
by The Linode Security Team
With the World IPv6 Launch coming up on June 6th, 2012, we’ve been working hard to make IPv6 available to all Linode customers so they can participate. We’re happy to announce that IPv6 is now available in all six of our locations across the world! If you’d like to enable IPv6 for your existing Linode, just navigate to […]
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IPv6 Now Available in London and Atlanta

Dec 20, 2011
by The Linode Security Team
As part of our ongoing efforts to support IPv6 across all of our locations, we are happy to announce that native IPv6 is now available in London and Atlanta. Existing Linodes can enable IPv6 simply by clicking “Enable IPv6” on the Remote Access tab of the Linode Manager. New Linodes and Linodes migrating into a facility […]
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Christopher Aker

Linode Launches Native IPv6 Support

May 3, 2011
by Christopher Aker
Over the past 25 years the Internet has experienced astronomical growth – far more than the original architects imagined. As a result, the pools of unallocated IPv4 blocks have been accelerating toward exhaustion. In fact, on February 3rd, 2011 the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the remaining pool of addresses equally among the five […]
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