Linode

Linode, LLC is an American privately-owned cloud hosting company that provides virtual private servers.[1][2] It is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Linode, LLC
Limited liability company
IndustryCloud computing, web services, Internet hosting services
Founded2003 (2003)
HeadquartersPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Christopher Aker
(founder and CEO)
ProductsCloud-hosting provider
Virtual private servers
Revenue$100 million
Number of employees
200+
Websitewww.linode.com

History

Linode (a portmanteau of the words Linux and node) was founded by Christopher Aker, launching in mid 2003.[3] Aker is a graduate of Full Sail University in Florida.

Linode transitioned from UML to Xen virtualization in March 2008, and then to KVM in mid-2015. It launched its data backup service in 2009.[1] NodeBalancer, a load-balancing service, launched in July 2011. Linode released Linode Managed, an incident response service designed for businesses, in 2013.[1]

Linode opened its first data centers in Fremont, California, and Dallas in 2003. It subsequently opened data centers in Atlanta in 2007; Newark, New Jersey, in 2008; London in 2009; Tokyo in 2011[1] and 2016[4]; Frankfurt[5] and Singapore[6] in 2015; and Toronto,[7] Mumbai,[8][9] and Sydney[10] in 2019.

In 2015, Christopher Aker purchased the historic Corn Exchange Bank building at North 3rd Street and Arch Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia. After renovations, Linode moved its headquarters there in 2018. Aker said that the company was having trouble attracting workers from its previous suburban location in Galloway Township, New Jersey, and hoped a Philadelphia location would help draft talent.[11]

Products and services

Its flagship products are cloud-hosting services with multiple packages at different price points.[12] As of November 2019, Linode offers five kinds of compute services geared towards specific needs of the customers like high memory requirements, dedicated CPU or GPU or general purpose usage. Linode Block Storage allows users to extend their server storage capacity with volumes on demand.[13] Linode Backup allows customers to backup their servers on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.[12] Linode Manager and NodeBalancer both allow users to manage multiple server instances across a single system.[12]

In September 2013, Linode launched Longview, an analysis package for Linux.[14][15][16][17][18] Linode launched its S3-Compatible Object Storage service on late October 2019 to enable customers to store large unstructured data. This was a highly requested feature from the customers.[19] On November 11, 2019 at CNCF KubeCon, Linode announced the availability of its managed Kubernetes engine service.[20]

Linode offers multiple products and services for its clients.[1][12]

Compute
  • Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) - Kubernetes containers as a service application.
  • GPU - On-demand cloud GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) compute configurations for parallel processing workloads such as machine learning, scientific computing, and video processing.
  • Dedicated CPU - Dedicated CPU instances run on their own CPU cores in the Linode infrastructure. No sharing the processor with other customers.
  • High Memory - High Memory compute configurations to run memory-intensive applications.
  • Shared Linodes - A balanced compute configuration for a wide range of cloud applications.
  • Nanode - $5/month entry level compute package to run a fully functioning Linux distribution.

Storage
  • Linode Object Storage - Highly available and scalable S3-Compatible object storage to store unstructured data.
  • Linode Block Storage - Block storage to store data in volumes, or blocks, which act as individual hard disk drives (HDD).
  • Linode Backups - Automatic data backup service.

Networking
  • VPC - Virtual Private Cloud for managing the software defined network of cloud resources.
  • VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network
  • DDoS Protection - Detection and mitigation of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) infrastructure attacks.
  • NodeBalancers - Software-defined, managed service for load balancing the traffic.
  • DNS Manager - Managed Domain Name System (DNS) service on Linode infrastructure.
  • Next Generation Network - Linodes modern worldwide network infrastructure which interconnects global data centers via a private fiber backbone.

One-Click App Marketplace
  • Linode Marketplace - Easy solution for developers to find and install pre-configured applications onto their Linode infrastructure.

Management Tools
  • Cloud Manager - A user- and mobile-friendly interface to deploy and manage Linode virtual machines, configure networking, and control user accounts.
  • Linode API - API (Application Programming Interface) for programmatic access to the Linode platform.
  • Linode CLI - CLI (Command Line Interface) account access from for managing Linode infrastructure.
  • Images - Create customer Linux images to make scaling easier.
  • StackScripts - Automatically customize Linode infrastructure deployments with StackScripts.
  • Monitoring - Analyze infrastructure performance, track transfer usage, and create custom alerts.

Professional Services
  • Managed - An incident response service to help businesses cut out costly downtime.
  • Professional Services - Cloud consulting to help you architect your services, carry out site migrations, and deploy software.

Awards

Linode is a recipient of the Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service.[21] In 2019, Linode was awarded a Top Workplaces honor by The Philadelphia Inquirer.[22] Linode’s headquarters building received the 2019 Grand Jury Award from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.[23][24] The building, built in 1902, is a Philadelphia landmark, named on Philadelphia’s registrar of historic places, and was once an MTV Real World house.[25]

Global Network

Linode operates 11 data centers around the world, connected by the company’s Next Generation Network and extensive peering arrangements.[26] IPv6 is fully enabled on all of Linode’s supported operating systems and free DDoS protection is included on all of the company’s virtual machines.[27]

Regions & Data Centers

As of Q2 2020, Linode Cloud is available in 11 regions leveraging 11 Data Centers.[28] A region is a specific geographical location where users can deploy cloud resources.

Regions Location Launch Date
1 Dallas, TX. USA Q2,2003
2 Fremont, CA. USA Q4, 2003
3 Atlanta, GA. USA Q1, 2007
4 Newark, NJ. USA Q2, 2008
5 London, England Q4, 2009
6 Tokyo, Japan Q3, 2011
7 Singapore, Singapore Q2, 2015
8 Frankfurt, Germany Q3, 2015
9 Toronto, Canada Q2, 2019
10 Mumbai, India Q2, 2019
11 Sydney, Australia Q3, 2019

Comparison of services with other cloud providers

Comparison of services between cloud providers can be confusing. The following chart provides comparison of comparable services to Linode offerings.

Linode Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure
Linode Compute Amazon EC2 Google Compute Engine Azure Virtual Machines
LinodeKubernetes Engine (LKE) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Google Kubernetes Engine Azure Kubernetes Service
Linode Object Storage Amazon S3 Google Cloud Storage Azure Blob Storage
Linode Block Storage Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Linode One-Click App Marketplace Azure App Services
Linode DNS Manager Route 53 Cloud DNS DNS
NodeBalancer Network Load Balancer Cloud Load Balancing Load Balancer
LinodeDDoS Shield Cloud Armor DDoS Protection Service
Linode GPU Accelerated Computing - P3 Instances Cloud GPU

Security incidents

The accounts of eight Linode customers that held Bitcoin electronic currency were compromised in March 2012.[29][30] Roughly 40,000 bitcoins were stolen.[29][30]

Hack The Planet (HTP) accessed Linode's web servers in 2013.[31][32][33] The group exploited a technical vulnerability in Adobe's ColdFusion application server.[31][32] Linode said that HTP could not decrypt any financially sensitive information and reset all account passwords.[31][33] Linode announced plans to introduce two-step authentication for its services in May 2013.[34]

Starting Christmas Day 2015 and continuing until January 10th, Linode was hit by large and frequent DDoS attacks, which were being caused by a "bad actor" purchasing large amounts of botnet capacity in an attempt to significantly damage Linode's business.[35] Linode was the victim of another severe DDoS attack over the 2016 Labor Day weekend.[36]

gollark: Observe, this America map.
gollark: The thing could plausibly be doing… antialiasing or whatever it's called, where if something is only partly within whatever you're drawing it's only partly shaded.
gollark: I don't know digital signal processing, so my code just does it in the very naive way I thought of after failing to get a FFT to work.
gollark: That was not it. Or at least not only it.
gollark: Oh wait. It *should* be sin and not cos. Maybe that's it?

See also

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