Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
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Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
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Re: Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
#2I believe I also have a "lifetime" account, I have not received this email. Though I did switch over to the solaris machines a few years ago.
Re: Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
#3I believe I also have a "lifetime" account, I have not received this email. Though I did switch over to the solaris machines a few years ago.
I switched to the Solaris hosting some time ago as well.
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#4I thought I'd switched over to Solaris hosting, but still got the email??
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#5I believe I also have a "lifetime" account, I have not received this email. Though I did switch over to the solaris machines a few years ago.
I received the email. Felt unpleasant. It wasn't much financially, just the feeling that it is wrong.
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#6I really like what Joyent is doing with illumos, dtrace, and other similar projects. That said...
They basically have let their "legacy" customers languish for a while, and after a pretty bad migration process a year or two ago, it was obvious that they really wanted to discard these old accounts - those boxes are running a version of opensolaris that's over 4 years old (snv_67).
Most of us paid quite a bit for our "lifetime" subscriptions, just to have it ripped up into a bunch of different parts that either get EOL'ed or sold off to another company (as was done with Strongspace).
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#7Mixed Griller here. I don't remember what the language was, but perhaps in this case "lifetime" meant the lifetime of the product, shared hosting. Personally, I'm happy with the accelerator, I never did like shared hosting and quit using it a long time ago except for a couple of sites that are gathering dust.
Re: Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
#8I really like what Joyent is doing with illumos, dtrace, and other similar projects. That said... They basically have let their "legacy" customers languish for a while, and after a pretty bad migration process a year or two ago, it was obvious that they really wanted to discard these old accounts - those boxes are running a version of opensolaris that's over 4 years old (snv_67). Most of us paid quite a bit for our "…
We're still developing Strongspace, and the lifetime subscribers are still being provided for by Joyent.
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#9I think lifetime should mean lifetime.
They should of given you at least 15 years free I think.
Re: Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts
#10I really like what Joyent is doing with illumos, dtrace, and other similar projects. That said... They basically have let their "legacy" customers languish for a while, and after a pretty bad migration process a year or two ago, it was obvious that they really wanted to discard these old accounts - those boxes are running a version of opensolaris that's over 4 years old (snv_67). Most of us paid quite a bit for our "…
We're still developing Strongspace, and the lifetime subscribers are still being provided for by Joyent.
I'm not faulting Expandrive by any means - you guys are great.
Any intention to EOL the "lifetime" plans on your end?