"Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it." Here is an old, h

"Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it." Here is an old, historical thread that gives some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669 I have a hazy recollection of their being part of the "free thumper" startup program that Sun Microsystems offered, briefly, and then later, blowing up one of those thumpers and losing a whole clouds worth of data... here it is: https://adtmag.com/articles/2008/01/21/strongspaces-10day-crash-highlights-web-storage-risks.aspx https://adtmag.com/articles/2008/01/21/strongspaces-10day-cr... Later, they were briefly (in)famous for voiding everyones lifetime shared hosting agreements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive "Customer backlash to the announcement turned out to be fierce."