18Jason Hoffman of Joyent has written an interesting article, Why EC2 isn’t yet a platform for “normal” web applications. No IP address persistence (they all function as DHCP clients and are assigned an IP). One has to use dynamic DNS services for a given domain. No block storage persistence. When the instance is gone, the [...]
Joyent’s New VC200 – Life-time Accelerator Plan
Didn’t I just talk about life-time hosting plans last week, and used TextDrive/Joyent as a pioneer example? They have just released the new VC200 — Life-time Accelerator Plans! For only $799 out-right, you can buy a small Solaris container with 256MB RAM, 5GB NAS storage on the Thumper and 15GB/month data transfer. You’ll be in [...]
Joyent’s New PodCast – ps pipe grep
The fine guys at Joyent has come out with a podcast of their own — ps pipe grep, with a tag line surveying all the processes. 160kbps MP3 for a podcast is a bit unnecessary, and I don’t really like their choice of music. However they scores in the category of geekiness. Stuff talked about [...]
Joyent Released Bingo! online storage
1Joyent, the company behind the developer-centric hosting service TextDrive, has released a new product — Bingo! on-line disk service. Joyent’s new Bingo! on-line disk service gives you 100 gigabytes of disk storage on Sun’s amazing X4500 platform with 10 gigabytes of bandwidth per month over WebDAV for the super-low price of $199 a year! You [...]