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I remember paying for a lifetime of hosting on TextDrive by the developers of TextPattern, which then got sold to Joyent (now owned by Samsung) and they they ki
by dave84 6y ago
I remember paying for a lifetime of hosting on TextDrive by the developers of TextPattern, which then got sold to Joyent (now owned by Samsung) and they they killed all the lifetime hosting. I did like TextPattern though, and I learned a valuable lesson about what lifetime means. To be fair I think the original founders relaunched TextDrive and honored the lifetime hosting but at that point I had moved on.
- bxparks 6y agoIn a corporate context, "lifetime" means almost nothing, it's a marketing slogan. Just like "unlimited bandwidth", "unlimited storage", and "we take your privacy and security very seriously".
- armandososa 6y agoOh I remember the old Joyent website. It had a great design, I visited it pretty much everyday just for the design and the illustrations. Then, one day it became corporatish and soulless and a great corner of the internet lost its beauty.
- michaelbuckbee 6y agoAfter having been burned one too many times, I now mentally substitute "lifetime" with "data loss". Services pitching "lifetime" seem to either wildly miscalculate the effect of pathological usage, fail to do accurate math on support, or are betting on shifts in the pricing of storage/bandwidth or computer that fail to emerge. There's a lot of justifiable angst around "everything becoming a SAAS" but if I'm comparing services and betting which will be around in a year: I'm paying the monthly fee.