| Linode, LLC | |||||
| Type: | Subsidiary | ||||
| Area Served: | Worldwide | ||||
| Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | ||||
| Industry: | Cloud computing, web services, Internet hosting services | ||||
| Products: | Cloud-hosting provider Virtual private servers | ||||
| Revenue: | $100 million | ||||
| Num Employees: | 200+ | ||||
| Parent: | Akamai Technologies | ||||
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Linode [1] was an American cloud hosting provider that focused on providing Linux-based virtual machines
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.[2]
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 focused on providing Linux-based virtual servers to small and medium-sized businesses. 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".[3]
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. [4] [5]
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.[6] 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.[7] [8]
The accounts of eight Linode customers that held Bitcoin cryptocurrency were compromised in March 2012.[9] Roughly 40,000 bitcoins were stolen.
Hack The Planet (HTP) accessed Linode's web servers in 2013.[10] [11] [12] 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-factor authentication for its services in May 2013.[13]
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.[14] Linode was the victim of another severe DDoS attack over the 2016 Labor Day weekend.[15]
Starting April 2023 and up to October 2023, Linode and Hetzner traffic for the largest Russian XMPP messaging service (jabber.ru) was intercepted through a Man-in-the-middle attack.[16]