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Wow, 5 months is an insanely short timetable to ask people to migrate entire systems to another vendor. I’m surprised their contracts don’t have better terms.

Locator9 7y ago
Joyent really doesn’t have a great track record on shutting down services... That said my view on the company is very much tainted by what happened many years ago when they where a different type of company all together. I personally purchased a few of their ‘VC’ plans before they when all enterprise.
- dogecoinbase 7y ago
  If anyone's curious, some of that history was documented here: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-textdrive/ http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
  - mzs 7y ago
    earlier context: https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/cloud-computing-company-joyent-leaves-early-supporters-out-in-the-cold/ https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/cloud-computing-company-jo...
  - eli 7y ago
    I once had an idea to research and write something about the history of Textdrive. Seems like there's something in there about how the internet changed from the '00s to the '10s and it'd be neat to interview some of the players and see where they are now.
imperialdrive 7y ago
If anyone reading this has less than 100 servers running with them, I am capable to handle turnkey documented migration in <60 days to a provider of your choice.
- jmarneweck 7y ago
  ex-cloud ops from Joyent here. I've done the literal migration of TextDrive and Joyent's shared hosting off them (300+ Solaris Zones and loads of legacy FreeBSD Servers) so ping me if you need help migrating. jmarneweck at gmail dot com. I also have experience running SmartOS on Leaseweb (they purchased Uniquity Hosting where I setup SmartOS instances on numerous servers in numerous datacentres.
sbarre 7y ago
I would assume they've been discussing this move for longer with any customers who would need more time. Decisions like this are long in the making, this is just the public announcement for the rest of us.
- hjhart 7y ago
  As someone whose previous company has been on their cloud for five years, they didn't reach out to us until 3 weeks ago.
milesward 7y ago
I work at a shop (SADA) that can help with migrations if you feel the pinch: @milesward on twitter is a good way to reach out.

Locator9 7y ago

Joyent really doesn’t have a great track record on shutting down services... That said my view on the company is very much tainted by what happened many years ago when they where a different type of company all together. I personally purchased a few of their ‘VC’ plans before they when all enterprise.

dogecoinbase 7y ago
If anyone's curious, some of that history was documented here: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-textdrive/ http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
- mzs 7y ago
  earlier context: https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/cloud-computing-company-joyent-leaves-early-supporters-out-in-the-cold/ https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/cloud-computing-company-jo...
- eli 7y ago
  I once had an idea to research and write something about the history of Textdrive. Seems like there's something in there about how the internet changed from the '00s to the '10s and it'd be neat to interview some of the players and see where they are now.

imperialdrive 7y ago

If anyone reading this has less than 100 servers running with them, I am capable to handle turnkey documented migration in <60 days to a provider of your choice.

jmarneweck 7y ago
ex-cloud ops from Joyent here. I've done the literal migration of TextDrive and Joyent's shared hosting off them (300+ Solaris Zones and loads of legacy FreeBSD Servers) so ping me if you need help migrating. jmarneweck at gmail dot com. I also have experience running SmartOS on Leaseweb (they purchased Uniquity Hosting where I setup SmartOS instances on numerous servers in numerous datacentres.

sbarre 7y ago

I would assume they've been discussing this move for longer with any customers who would need more time. Decisions like this are long in the making, this is just the public announcement for the rest of us.

hjhart 7y ago
As someone whose previous company has been on their cloud for five years, they didn't reach out to us until 3 weeks ago.

milesward 7y ago

I work at a shop (SADA) that can help with migrations if you feel the pinch: @milesward on twitter is a good way to reach out.