Hi,
how much linodes registered has linode?

Is this a big or small company?
When this company born?

I'm here since two weeks and I just love you,
I hope that you'll grow up as much as you worth.

Thanks!

Interesting question - I don't think they are going to tell us.

Let's try and guess. Just to make an estimate, assume that Linodes selling frequency is in inverse proportion to their size (i.e. 8 times as many 360s as 2880s). A mean disk usage calculation given that distribution gives an average disk consumption of around 34 GB per user (neglecting backup trial and extras). Linode says that they have 700 TB of disk on line. So that gives us a guesstimate of 20,000 Linodes, running on ~ 1500 hosts.

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I calculate 1493.716 hosts, but then again my computer has a 1/2 bit CPU so it sometimes rounds oddly.

James

I tooked that this company is bigger...
Good work, and have a good growing

Big enough to meet your needs, small enough to care.

Insert cheesy jingle here.

Good slogan
you're right...

Pentium FDIV bug?

Or did you use Excel?

http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic. ... 4179#14179

In what way? There are...6 employees, I think. (I hope I didn't leave someone out!)


June 2003.

really small...

Assuming the numbers below that are rough and correct, I dont think that id consider 1500 hosts with 22000 customers "Small". By the nature of the work they are doing they dont nessessarly need a large ammount of staff..

Especially if you automate most of it.. You seem to be of the assuming that more staff = better service, or more stability, but in the case of linode i would tend to disagree.. Linode is awesome, ive had nothing but success with my linodes over the 5? 6? years that ive been here.. Id much rather be with this "small" company then something "large" like dreamhost.

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We're getting VPS service so cheap because they don't have a huge staff, I'd wager. After all, they hired on who they needed as engineers - they don't need a huge (outsourced?) technical support department.

If there were managed hosting, then I could see the justification for a huge staff that does nothing but deal with little requests like, "We need 50 email users, here are their names, please report when its done." Or "We need an asterisk server setup, plz."

But, hey, that's what rackspace is for. And their 300 a month price.

ran into this just now:

http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/rep ... linode.com

looks like linode hosts around 17,000 domains. it doesn't directly translate into the number of customers, but maybe it gives us a good idea about the size of linode?

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Well, if Linode follows the naming scheme [datacenter][#].linode.com (ie, newark1.linode.com, newark2.linode.com, etc) for the servers' DNS entries, and the numbers are contiguous, I count 502 servers:

Atlanta: 96
Dallas: 173
Fremont: 102
Newark: 132
Total: 502

That's not going to be too accurate because older hosts are phased out without their numbers being reused.