Yes, Joyent was the one that totally screwed the pooch on that. I had a few lifetime plans with them. One was with TextDrive, before the Joyent acquisition/mer

Yes, Joyent was the one that totally screwed the pooch on that. I had a few lifetime plans with them. One was with TextDrive, before the Joyent acquisition/merger and that was their shared hosting plan back when they were doing everything on FreeBSD. Then after the merger they did a sort of pre-VPS type plan where it was using Solaris Containers. Those were really cool little boxes. I also had one of their Strongspace lifetime plans, and that still exists as Expandrive bought them and continues offering the lifetime plans. Edit: oh, and for how it was ended, Joyent was purchased by Samsung (I think it was) and to get the lifetime stuff off the books they basically forced everyone onto their VPS-like solution but only for ~2 years I think it was. So everything disappeared.