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What's the big deal? I'd really like to know too. I'm not just asking that to be snarky. :-)

AWS and a few other hosts[1] have had this for a while. Is Linode doing anything differently, or is this just an instance of another (big name) hosting company joining the fray?

[1] like contegix: http://www.contegix.com/infrastructure/load-balancing.php

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This isn't a big deal in terms of being revolutionary. I doubt they're doing anything differently than anyone else...load-balancing web servers is a pretty well-solved problem at this point. What's a big deal is that Linode already has many fans around here and this makes their product better for a significant portion of their users without adding a lot of cost.

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