Area served Worldwide Revenue 22.3 million USD Number of employees 70 | Website linode.com Founded 2003 Type Limited liability company | |
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Industry Internet hosting services Key people Christopher Aker
(founder and CEO) Products Cloud-hosting provider
Virtual private servers Headquarters Galloway Township, New Jersey, United States CEO Christopher Aker (Jun 2003–) Profiles | ||
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Linode, LLC is an American privately owned virtual private server provider company based in Galloway, New Jersey, United States.
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History
Linode (a contraction of the words linux and node) 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. It launched its data backup service in 2009. NodeBalancer, a load-balancing service, launched in July 2011. Linode released Linode Managed, an incident response service designed for businesses, in 2013.
Its Dallas, Texas and Fremont, California data centers opened in 2003. Linode also opened an Atlanta, Georgia data center in 2007; a Newark, New Jersey-based center in 2008; its London, England center in 2009; a Tokyo, Japan center in 2011; as well as Frankfurt, Germany and Singapore data centers in 2015. On November 21, 2016 Linode announced the opening of a second data center in Tokyo as the other data center in the region was sold out.
Products and services
Linode offers multiple products and services for its clients. Its flagship products are cloud-hosting services with multiple packages at different price points. Linode Backup allows customers to backup their servers on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Linode Manager and NodeBalancer both allow users to manage multiple server instances across a single system. In September 2013, Linode launched Longview, an analysis package for Linux.
Security concerns
The accounts of eight Linode customers that held Bitcoin electronic currency were compromised in March 2012. Roughly 40,000 bitcoins were stolen.
Hack The Planet accessed the Linode’s web servers in 2013. The group exploited a technical vulnerability in Adobe’s ColdFusion application server. 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.
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. Linode was the victim of another severe DDoS attack over the 2016 Labor Day weekend.