Linode

Linode (a portmanteau of the words Linux and node) was founded by Christopher Aker, launching in mid 2003.

Linode opened its first data centers in Fremont, California, and Dallas, Texas in 2003. It subsequently opened data centers in Atlanta in 2007; Newark and New Jersey in 2008; London in 2009; Tokyo in 2011 and 2016; Frankfurt and Singapore in 2015; and Toronto, Mumbai, and Sydney in 2019.

In 2022, Akamai Technologies announced that they had acquired Linode for approximately $900 million.