Linode
{{short description|American cloud hosting company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Linode, LLC
| logo = Official Linode logo.svg
| image_size = 100x100
| type = Subsidiary
| area_served = Worldwide
| foundation = {{Start date and age|2003}}
| defunct =
| location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
| key_people = {{ubl|Christopher Aker|{{smaller|(Founder and CEO)}}}}
| industry = Cloud computing, web services, Internet hosting services
| products = Cloud-hosting provider
Virtual private servers
| revenue = $100 million
| num_employees = 200+
| parent = Akamai Technologies
| module = {{infobox network service provider|child=yes|asn=63949}}
| homepage = {{URL|https://www.linode.com/}}
}}
Linode ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|ɪ|n|oʊ|d}}){{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUcjCsyloTw&t=4m28s|title=Open Source Is Critical To Linode: Christopher Aker, Founder & CEO|work=TFiR|date=June 19, 2019|access-date=November 21, 2022}} is an American cloud hosting provider that focused on providing Linux-based virtual machines and cloud infrastructure.
From the time of its launch in 2003, Linode provided virtual private server (VPS) hosting.
Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in February 2022 for $900 million.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-15 |title=Akamai To Acquire Linode to Provide Businesses with a Developer-friendly and Massively-distributed Platform to Build, Run and Secure Next Generation Applications |url=https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-to-acquire-linode |publisher=Akamai}}
History
Linode (a portmanteau of the words Linux and node) was founded in 2003 by Christopher Aker. Aker is a graduate of Full Sail University in Florida. The company moved its headquarters to Galloway, New Jersey in 2008. Linode relocated to the historic Corn Exchange National Bank building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2018.
On February 15, 2022, Akamai Technologies announced its intent to acquire Linode for $900 million. Akamai's founder and CEO Tom Leighton stated that it sought to "combine Linode's developer-friendly cloud computing capabilities with Akamai’s market-leading edge platform and security services".{{Cite web |last=Lardinois |first=Frederic |date=2022-02-15 |title=Akamai acquires Linode for $900M |url=https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/15/akamai-acquires-linode-for-900m/ |access-date=2023-02-15 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}
Products and services
As of November 2019, Linode provided several kinds of virtualization-based computing services with options to meet specific customer needs, such as high memory requirements, dedicated CPU resources, virtual machines with direct access to GPUs. Linode provided services in network-based storage and backup servers.{{Cite web|title=Block Storage Volumes|url=https://www.linode.com/products/block-storage/|access-date=5 Aug 2021|website=Linode|language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Backups |url=https://www.linode.com/products/backups/ |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=Linode |language=en}}
In September 2013, Linode launched Longview, a system performance monitoring package for Linux that allows users to view performance metrics of their instances from the Linode Cloud Manager.{{Cite web |title=Linode Launches Longview, Takes Deep Look at Data Center and Server Performance |url=https://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2013/09/05/351999-linode-launches-longview-takes-deep-look-data-center.htm |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=www.techzone360.com |language=en}} In late October 2019, Linode launched its S3-Compatible Object Storage service 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linode.com/2019/11/19/linode-managed-kubernetes-now-available/|title=Linode Managed Kubernetes Now Available|date=2019-11-19|website=Linode|language=en|access-date=2019-11-24}}{{cite web |date=2013-11-04 |title=It's clear to Linode: There's a market to bring cloud services to small companies |url=http://www.njbiz.com/article/20131104/NJBIZ01/311019994/It%E2%80%99s-clear-to-Linode:-There%E2%80%99s-a-market-to-bring-cloud-services-to-small-companies |access-date=5 Aug 2021 |publisher=New Jersey Business Journal}}
Security incidents
In 2012, the accounts of eight Linode customers were compromised, stealing roughly 40,000 bitcoins.{{cite web |last=Leyden |first=John |title=Linode hackers escape with $70K in daring bitcoin heist |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/linode_bitcoin_heist/ |access-date=18 July 2013 |work=The Register}}
In 2013, hacking group Hack The Planet (HTP) accessed Linode's web servers by exploiting a technical vulnerability in Adobe's ColdFusion application server.{{cite web |last=Lee |first=Michael |title=VPS host Linode issues customer-wide password reset |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/vps-host-linode-issues-customer-wide-password-reset/ |access-date=18 July 2013 |work=ZDNet}}{{cite web |last=Dumon |first=Marv |title=Amazon Launches Cloud Computing Certification Program - Page 2 |url=http://technorati.com/technology/cloud-computing/article/amazon-launches-cloud-computing-certification-program/page-2/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203050142/http://technorati.com/technology/cloud-computing/article/amazon-launches-cloud-computing-certification-program/page-2/ |archive-date=3 December 2013 |access-date=18 July 2013 |work=Technorati}}{{cite web |last=Leyden |first=John |title=Web host Linode, hackers clash over credit-card raid claim |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/16/linode_breach/ |access-date=18 July 2013 |work=The Register}} Linode said that HTP could not decrypt any financially sensitive information and reset all account passwords. Linode announced plans to introduce two-factor authentication for its services in May 2013.{{cite web|last=Bandoim |first=Lana |title=Two-Step Authentication Grows in Popularity |url=http://voices.yahoo.com/two-step-authentication-grows-popularity-12132405.html?cat=15 |work=Yahoo! Voices |access-date=18 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609064506/http://voices.yahoo.com/two-step-authentication-grows-popularity-12132405.html?cat=15 |archive-date= 9 June 2013 }}
Starting Christmas Day 2015 and continuing until January 10, 2016, 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.{{cite web|last1=Forster|first1=Alex|title=An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks|url=http://status.linode.com/incidents/mmdbljlglnfd|website=Linode|access-date=January 1, 2016}} Linode was the victim of another severe DDoS attack over the 2016 Labor Day weekend.{{cite web|last1=Cimpanu|first1=Catalin|title="Catastrophic" DDoS Attack Pummels Linode Servers over Labor Day Weekend|date=5 September 2016 |url=http://news.softpedia.com/news/catastrophic-ddos-attack-pummels-linode-servers-over-the-weekend-507985.shtml}}
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