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Dec, 2015 : Linode Buying New Building from MTVs “Real World”
📅 - Linode, LLC, a cloud-hosting company, recently announced the purchase of a building, which was featured on the TV show, “Real World” from MTV. The show first aired in 1992 and became incredibly popular very fast. The purchase of the new building cost Linode $5 million and the building is found in the “tech corridor” of Philadelphia.
Linode was founded in 2003 and specializes in cloud-hosting services for developers and designers. The company has about 400,000 customers and provides a high performance service on Linux servers. .
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