17 Facts About Linode

Linode, LLC is an American cloud hosting provider that focuses on providing Linux powered virtual machines to support a wide range of applications.

Back in 2003, at the time of its launch, Linode was considered ahead of its time with virtualization hosting.

Linode was founded by Christopher Aker, launching in mid 2003.

Linode transitioned from UML to Xen virtualization in March 2008, and then to KVM in mid-2015.

Linode released Linode Managed, an incident response service designed for businesses, in 2013.

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Linode opened its first data centers in Fremont, and Dallas in 2003.

Linode Backup allows customers to backup their servers on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

Linode launched its S3-Compatible Object Storage service in late October 2019 to enable customers to store large unstructured data.

On November 11,2019, at CNCF KubeCon, Linode announced the availability of its managed Kubernetes engine service.

Linode is a recipient of the Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service.

In 2019, Linode was awarded a Top Workplaces honor by The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Linode's headquarters building received the 2019 Grand Jury Award from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.

Linode operates 11 data centers around the world, connected by the company's Next Generation Network and extensive peering arrangements.

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.

Linode said that HTP could not decrypt any financially sensitive information and reset all account passwords.

Linode announced plans to introduce two-step authentication for its services in May 2013.

Linode was the victim of another severe DDoS attack over the 2016 Labor Day weekend.