Is it possible to upgrade a linode using the iPhone app?

No.

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What a useful feature that would be.

Indeed...

uh-oh .. just noticed that the app still hasn't been updated for iPhone 5 almost a year after the 5 came out. One of the reasons I went with Linode was because of the mobile support, over Digital Ocean. I do hope Linode is still committed to the app.

Eh, some things are better done in the browser anyway. If you're talking about the "Free Upgrade Queue" there is no API for this for one. If you're talking about regular upgrades/resizes they have a corresponding API call and should be trivial to add. http://www.linode.com/api/linode/linode.resize

Good lord, you're right.. this should be very straightforward for them to implement; better still open source the app code and let us do it (I'm sure there are many folks here who are, like myself, iOS/Android developers).

A quick search shows that http://www.linkedin.com/in/jedsmith wrote and developed the app while he worked at Linode, which is no longer the case. I really doubt the source code will be open sourced.

Wow, nice find (you must have a premium subscription to linkedin, I can't see that detail). The app is pushed out under Linode LLC, i.e. it's a company developer credential which are a pain in the butt to get and which Linode will still own. Jed's source will be owned by Linode not Jed, and they probably still have the XCode project collecting dust somewhere. If anyone at Linode is listeneing, I'd be happy to update the source.

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Your series of events is correct. There's a typo on http://linode.com/iphone/ though; I pulled the trigger on v1.0.6 in January 2011, not 2010.

The iPhone 4 introduced retina graphics, which required an update to fix (which I believe v1.0.5 was), but the iPhone 5 just presents a longer Y axis; since the app is built using all iOS primitives, I can't imagine anything would break dramatically on iPhone 5. I have been wrong about this in the past, though, when Apple changed an API between major versions of (at the time) iPhone OS.

That code's a rat's nest but, as other people have hinted, it's just a straight API client. The graphs are the only exception. That was my first iPhone (and Objective-C) app ever, so it was slow-going to develop, and I know an expert iOS developer could smoke me on it. As for Linode's plans with it, I have no idea.


Regardless, leave my profile on LinkedIn please, and remove your quoted portion. In case I change my mind about privacy.

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Thanks Jed and Kyle;
Jed, for a first app (or even your 1000th app) it's a really nice piece of work - late-loading graphs, etc. Well done.

Thank you for the kind words. I'll bug people I know internally about what I can find out, but I'm on the outside now, just like you.

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Yes, I can't tell you how many times I've just finished a nice powder run on Castle Apron and said, gee, I need to upgrade Ms Grimwales VPS.

Really, how often and why would this be needed?

If you're doing sysadmin tasks via a smartphone, you have to ask yourself are you really giving your clients your FULL attention.

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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.

That depends, if they're on the iPhone app only because something like the washroom has taken them away from managing client linodes on a desktop or laptop, then those clients may have more attention than they should