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Joyent: free hosting for high-volume Python apps, if you give us customer info

33 points by henning 19y ago

zaidf 19y ago
Late April Fools? I hope so. At least the customer info. part.
icky 19y ago
And if you don't mind using their mutant Solaris...
- docmach 19y ago
  What don't you like about their version of Solaris?
  - icky 19y ago
    It's Solaris. ;) I likes me a nice GNU environment, or at least a sane BSD.
ajkirwin 19y ago
That already makes me incredibly suspicious of Joyent. I'm.. not sure I will ever use them. I mean, what're they gonna DO with all that data?
- SwellJoe 19y ago
  They are using parody to criticize the very same terms that Google is offering for their App Engine (which people seem excited about).
  - johnrob 19y ago
    ... And they are starting to look childish in the process.
    - SwellJoe 19y ago
      I would agree, but only if they didn't actually give you those terms if you really wanted them. And I have every reason to believe that if you actually were to take them up on it, they would deliver.
  - greendestiny 19y ago
    Yeah but this post and their other just turn me off joyent. The offense they take to changes in the landscape just seems pathetic.
dorkmo 19y ago
i think they are secretly working on some high level AI stuff that requires lots of worldly data
adamhowell 19y ago
Seems like Joyent's stopped pretending to be a real company. Weak, unhinted at parody like this is something you'd expect from a blogger, maybe, but the fact that they don't care whether they confuse their customers or employees with this is odd. But, I guess when your whole business is supposed to be storing people's data and instead you end up making it inaccessible for over a week (http://tinyurl.com/2pt8g3 http://tinyurl.com/2pt8g3), you stop caring.
pmorici 19y ago
Ha, the first comment is priceless "Is this for real!"
rob 19y ago
This post and Joyent's last post (http://tinyurl.com/6p49xk http://tinyurl.com/6p49xk) certainly make it seem as if they're scared of App Engine and what Google is doing.
wenbert 19y ago
hmmmm... i have been looking for a similar "sponsor" host for me and my hacker friends... we will be contributing for a dev house. the Joyent idea is great but not for everyone, we don't have 25K visitors/month :P anyone interested in hosting some of our apps and our apps-to-be? PHP5, MySQL, RoR, etc... yes, this is a shameless plug because funding is out of the equation here, no Y Combinator or Launchbox since i am from cebu, philippines...

33 points by henning 19y ago

zaidf 19y ago

Late April Fools? I hope so. At least the customer info. part.

icky 19y ago

And if you don't mind using their mutant Solaris...

docmach 19y ago
What don't you like about their version of Solaris?
- icky 19y ago
  It's Solaris. ;) I likes me a nice GNU environment, or at least a sane BSD.

ajkirwin 19y ago

That already makes me incredibly suspicious of Joyent. I'm.. not sure I will ever use them. I mean, what're they gonna DO with all that data?

SwellJoe 19y ago
They are using parody to criticize the very same terms that Google is offering for their App Engine (which people seem excited about).
- johnrob 19y ago
  ... And they are starting to look childish in the process.
  - SwellJoe 19y ago
    I would agree, but only if they didn't actually give you those terms if you really wanted them. And I have every reason to believe that if you actually were to take them up on it, they would deliver.
- greendestiny 19y ago
  Yeah but this post and their other just turn me off joyent. The offense they take to changes in the landscape just seems pathetic.

dorkmo 19y ago

i think they are secretly working on some high level AI stuff that requires lots of worldly data

adamhowell 19y ago

Seems like Joyent's stopped pretending to be a real company. Weak, unhinted at parody like this is something you'd expect from a blogger, maybe, but the fact that they don't care whether they confuse their customers or employees with this is odd. But, I guess when your whole business is supposed to be storing people's data and instead you end up making it inaccessible for over a week (http://tinyurl.com/2pt8g3 http://tinyurl.com/2pt8g3), you stop caring.

pmorici 19y ago

Ha, the first comment is priceless "Is this for real!"

rob 19y ago

This post and Joyent's last post (http://tinyurl.com/6p49xk http://tinyurl.com/6p49xk) certainly make it seem as if they're scared of App Engine and what Google is doing.

wenbert 19y ago

hmmmm... i have been looking for a similar "sponsor" host for me and my hacker friends... we will be contributing for a dev house. the Joyent idea is great but not for everyone, we don't have 25K visitors/month :P anyone interested in hosting some of our apps and our apps-to-be? PHP5, MySQL, RoR, etc... yes, this is a shameless plug because funding is out of the equation here, no Y Combinator or Launchbox since i am from cebu, philippines...