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I fondly remember Joyent as one of the first companies to do Ruby on Rails hosting right. They were using a combo of FreeBSD, Virtualmin, Apache (proxying to mo

by Nux 7y ago

I fondly remember Joyent as one of the first companies to do Ruby on Rails hosting right. They were using a combo of FreeBSD, Virtualmin, Apache (proxying to mongrel etc). Fun times!

SwellJoe 7y ago
They were probably our (Virtualmin) biggest user for a few years. They used the Open Source version so we didn't see much revenue from it (occasionally their users would upgrade to the commercial version), but they sponsored a few Solaris-related features in Virtualmin/Webmin and sent us patches now and then. The shared hosting stuff that used Virtualmin was TextDrive, and once they moved to container-based products they stopped including a control panel at some point (and they're container management stuff didn't use our tools for that), so we lost touch with them. Edit: It's also how Twitter used Virtualmin in their early days, as they were hosted at Joyent. (I didn't know this until Evan Williams told me at a YC event. That was pretty cool.)
- jmarneweck 7y ago
  Evan was a lifetimer. Twitter's mail was routed via one.textdrive.com if memory serves me correctly using a truck load of aliases to redirect to offsite email accounts. It was a pleasure dealing with the Virtualmin team on issues we had on Virtualmin on Joyent and TextDrive's shared hosting services. Replying to the "Wins over GCE/AWS above that I can't reply to": They had various: * The ability to run workloads at near bare metal speeds (their using Solaris Containers). * Manta (ability to perform compute operations on their storage service without having to download files and reupload files). * Their work on getting a better user experience in zones with pkgsrc (thanks to all the hard work of Filip and Jonathan). * Better performance and having the ability to spend less money on resources and reducing the instance count for folks moving off AWS to Joyent. I was involved in a number of these migrations.
- Nux 7y ago
  That's a nice bit of trivia! Had no idea Twitter started on Virtualmin at Joyent.

by Nux 7y ago

I fondly remember Joyent as one of the first companies to do Ruby on Rails hosting right. They were using a combo of FreeBSD, Virtualmin, Apache (proxying to mongrel etc). Fun times!

SwellJoe 7y ago

They were probably our (Virtualmin) biggest user for a few years. They used the Open Source version so we didn't see much revenue from it (occasionally their users would upgrade to the commercial version), but they sponsored a few Solaris-related features in Virtualmin/Webmin and sent us patches now and then. The shared hosting stuff that used Virtualmin was TextDrive, and once they moved to container-based products they stopped including a control panel at some point (and they're container management stuff didn't use our tools for that), so we lost touch with them. Edit: It's also how Twitter used Virtualmin in their early days, as they were hosted at Joyent. (I didn't know this until Evan Williams told me at a YC event. That was pretty cool.)

jmarneweck 7y ago
Evan was a lifetimer. Twitter's mail was routed via one.textdrive.com if memory serves me correctly using a truck load of aliases to redirect to offsite email accounts. It was a pleasure dealing with the Virtualmin team on issues we had on Virtualmin on Joyent and TextDrive's shared hosting services. Replying to the "Wins over GCE/AWS above that I can't reply to": They had various: * The ability to run workloads at near bare metal speeds (their using Solaris Containers). * Manta (ability to perform compute operations on their storage service without having to download files and reupload files). * Their work on getting a better user experience in zones with pkgsrc (thanks to all the hard work of Filip and Jonathan). * Better performance and having the ability to spend less money on resources and reducing the instance count for folks moving off AWS to Joyent. I was involved in a number of these migrations.
Nux 7y ago
That's a nice bit of trivia! Had no idea Twitter started on Virtualmin at Joyent.