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So the prices are pretty much identical to Amazon EC2. Why would anybody choose an unknown player versus somebody very experienced like Amazon?

• timdorr 15y ago
  Joyent may be unknown to you, but they do a lot of interesting things with Solaris/Illumos, tons with Node.js, and have been around for quite some time. They were an early host of Twitter and have been around for 7 years at this point. Keep in mind that EC2 has only been out of beta for 3 years next month.
• dmpk2k 15y ago
  There are some notable names running on Joyent's infrastructure. They could have used AWS instead, but they didn't. I don't know if that means anything though, since there are odd ducks in every crowd. One thing I like about Joyent is they're not trying to solve hard-to-impossible problems like Amazon (e.g. EBS), but rather realistic and immediate problems (e.g. guaranteed disk latency). For all EBS's promises, the latter is vastly more important to me; I've had few problems EBS would solve, and a truckload that higher-quality I/O would. Also, those analytics are nothing to sneeze at. That's worth almost as much as the IO.
  • rorrr 15y ago
    If you really care about low latency, get a dedicated server. You will even get better specs if you spend the same money. There are amazing deals out there, like this one: https://robot.your-server.de/order https://robot.your-server.de/order
    • pjriot 15y ago
      This is all desktop hardware. Its not the same thing.
• thibaut_barrere 15y ago
  From all the hosts I have used, Joyent has been the most rock-solid (by far). So personally it rings a bell :)