Via Virtualization.info, TextDrive, the web-hosting arm of Joyent that is popular amongst web developers, has released OpenSolaris Container hosting. Probably the first in the industry.

Here’s an extract from TextDrive’s product page.

Better than a VPS, more flexible than a dedicated server

TextDrive’s On-Demand Container Hosting combines premium quality Sun hardware with the performance of Open Solaris and the flexibility of zone containers. You get root access to your own Container, guaranteed system resources, a fully maintained operating system and packages highly optimized for the platform.

Plans ain’t cheap though.

For $250 per month, you get 2Gb RAM, 25Gb storage and 100Gb bandwidth. Storage is on SAN, and all hardware are Sun Fire Opterons. Solaris Containers is an operating system level virtualization technology, similar to OpenVZ and Linux VServer.

Interestingly Joyent had some issues with Sun sales in March, but is now replacing their Dell boxes with Sun Fires. I too would love to play around Open Solaris (and possibly using Portaris). Too bad that I would need another job to rent a Solaris zone from TextDrive.