Even in-browser consoles have been done for a long time. At least Digital Ocean and Ubiquity Hosting have... how else do you fix a broken firewall rule that blocks SSH or something?

Linode has had a textmode in-browser console for quite some time (LISH). This post is introducing GLISH:

> It's similar to Lish, except instead of connecting to your Linode's serial port and being text, Glish connects to your Linode's graphics port and displays, you guessed it, raster graphics.

Oh yea, I mean Linode's had the out-of-band in-browser console since at least 2009 when I first became a customer. Are DO and Ubiquity's consoles graphical, too? If that's the case then I agree this is catching up, not innovation.

Ubiquity's did, although I never had a reason to run a GUI on any of my DO instances -- however I don't see why they wouldn't -- all these "graphical" consoles just use VNC to project the GUI into the browser.

I suspect there hasn't been much demand for Linode to integrate a full graphical console, but it's been on their checklist for some time and are now getting around to it. Could be a sign of polishing up the platform, which I'm sure is good for all Linode users in general.