Linode, a privately owned company headquartered in the US and a subsidiary of Akamai, was founded in 2003 and employs approximately 250 individuals. The company provides IT Services and IT Consulting, functioning as a US-based cloud service provider. Akamai acquired Linode for approximately $900 million on March 21, 2022.
On December 8, 2025, a customer reported a Linode outage that took their Cloudron server offline, impacting Mastodon and Pixelfed instances, and also noted an email indicating potential data loss, prompting a move to Hetzner. Previously, on November 19, 2025, Linode was featured as a top budget GPU cloud provider alongside companies such as RunPod, Vast.ai, DigitalOcean, and OVHCloud, recognized for offering powerful GPUs, fast SSD storage, and free SSL certificates in a 2025 guide.
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