hosting services founded 2003 ; 13 years ago 2003 headquarters galloway new jersey united states area served worldwide key people christopher aker founder and ceo products cloud hosting provider virtual private servers revenue 22.3 million number of employees 70 website linode.com linode llc is an american privately owned virtual private server provider company based in galloway new jersey united states . 1 contents 1 history 2 products and services 3 security concerns 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit linode a portmanteau of the words linux and node was founded by christopher aker launching in mid 2003 . 2 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 . 1 nodebalancer a load balancing service launched in july 2011 . linode released linode managed an incident response service designed for businesses in 2013 . 1 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 ; 1 as well as frankfurt germany 3 and singapore 4 data centers in 2015 . products and services edit linode offers multiple products and services for its clients . 1 5 its flagship products are cloud hosting services with multiple packages at different price points . 5 linode backup allows customers to backup their servers on a daily weekly or monthly basis . 5 linode manager and nodebalancer both allow users to manage multiple server instances across a single system . 5 in september 2013 linode launched longview an analysis package for linux . 6 7 8 9 10 security concerns edit the accounts of eight linode customers that held bitcoin electronic currency were compromised in march 2012 . 11 12 roughly 40 000 bitcoins were stolen . 11 12 hack the planet accessed the linode s web servers in 2013 . 13 14 15 the group exploited a technical vulnerability in adobe s coldfusion application server . 13 14 linode said that htp could not decrypt any financially sensitive information and reset all account passwords . 13 15 linode announced plans to introduce two step authentication for its services in may 2013 . 16 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 . 17 linode was the victim of another severe ddos attack over the 2016 labor day weekend . 18 see also edit cloud computing references edit a b c d e it s clear to linode there s a market to bring cloud services to small companies . new jersey business journal . retrieved 21 nov 2013 . about us linode . retrieved 3 december 2013 . introducing linodes in frankfurt . linode . retrieved 23 aug 2015 . singapore linodes are now available . linode . retrieved 13 may 2016 . a b c d adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in flash player coldfusion . retrieved 21 nov 2013 . bernstein peter . september 5 2013 . linode launches longview takes deep look at data center and server performance . techzone 360 . retrieved september 9 2013 . jack clark september 6 2013 . linode adds analytics package to linux cloud . the register . retrieved september 27 2013 . peter bernstein september 5 2013 . linode launches longview takes deep look at data center and server performance . tech zone 360 . retrieved september 27 2013 . nicole henderson september 5 2013 . linode launches longview for linux server statistics collection and graphing . the whir . retrieved september 27 2013 . john maxwell september 6 2013 . linode releases longview new linux server statistics collection and graphing service . best web hosting 2go . retrieved september 27 2013 . a b matonis jon . watch bitcoin robbery in slow motion . forbes . retrieved 18 july 2013 . a b leyden john . linode hackers escape with 70k in daring bitcoin heist . the register . retrieved 18 july 2013 . a b c lee michael . vps host linode issues customer wide password reset . zdnet . retrieved 18 july 2013 . a b dumon marv . amazon launches cloud computing certification program page 2 . technorati . retrieved 18 july 2013 . a b leyden john . web host linode hackers clash over credit card raid claim . the register . retrieved 18 july 2013 . bandoim lana . two step authentication grows in popularity . yahoo voices . retrieved 18 july 2013 . forster alex. an update from linode about the recent ddos attacks . http status.linode.com . linode . retrieved january 1 2016 . external link in website help cimpanu catalin . catastrophic ddos attack pummels linode servers over labor day weekend . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title linode & oldid 738077832 categories cloud infrastructurecloud computing providersweb servicescompanies based in atlantic county new jerseygalloway township new jerseycompanies established in 2003internet hostinghidden categories cs1 errors external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages t rk e edit links this page was last modified on 6 september 2016 at 19 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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