Pretty cool feature, but it seems like they're working at the wrong layer of abstraction. It seems like that's really best left up to Capistrano, Puppet, etc.

Pretty cool feature, but it seems like they're working at the wrong layer of abstraction. It seems like that's really best left up to Capistrano, Puppet, etc. Stuff you run from your shell where you run the "setup the server with ip/hostname of x", and it does it. But they want you to raise the barrier of exit for their customers and want to differentiate themselves, so it makes sense. Plus a lot of the stacks say they're tuned for Linode's exact resources. That might be more selling point than actual special setup, but there is potential for them to tweak it for better performance on their exact machines.