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caker

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About caker

Linode founder and chief executive

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #5056087

    Linode recently replaced the AjaxTerm based web console with a Shell-in-a-box version. Also you can always access the console using SSH to the host instead of the web version.

  2. comment
    Comment #2662652

    Linode storage comes bundled with a virtual machine! The more you pay, the more RAM, network transfer quota, and better CPU contention you get - without any extra costs. It's hardl…

  3. comment
    Comment #2198368

    There's no such thing as a "cloud server" that sits atop a cluster of machines and pools resources together like RAM into a single instance. VPS and Cloud Servers are identical. It…

  4. comment
    Comment #2014709

    backup is not a verb

  5. comment
    Comment #2010112

    FWIW, one can swap/move IPs between Linodes within the same facility, too.

  6. comment
    Comment #1562226

    Submit a ticket and we'll help you out.

  7. comment
    Comment #1461505

    Linode provides 512 all the way to 20G instances, fwiw.

  8. comment
    Comment #1359229

    http://status.linode.com/ had updates all throughout the issue.

  9. comment
    Comment #1170219

    > This means DNS queries will not resolve for government employees if they point to Linode hosted machines. This is total FUD. Please check your statements for accuracy.

  10. comment
    Comment #1113441

    It's pro-rated to the day - so if you add a Linode for the month but remove it after one day, you've ended up being credited back all but $0.67, in the case of a Linode 360.

  11. comment
    Comment #857250

    You can run FreeBSD on Linode: http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/BSD_Howto - However, last I checked, FreeBSD under Xen didn't support SMP (or 64 bit).