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If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down

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Re: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down

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Post by staunch »

My new startup, Uptano (https://uptano.com), is a cloud provider (still hurts me to write "cloud").

..and we've had 100% uptime in our short run so far. Our systems are highly redundant and as decoupled as possible. Still, I wouldn't for one second claim that I, or anyone else, could do better than AWS on reliability.

AWS does a great job on reliability. I do think EBS is a terrible technology that should die in a fiery pit, but they do a damn good job of keeping everything up.

If they really do believe their 99.9999% claim, I'd love to see them make a bet. How about Reddit gets $1M if they move and it falls below that?

Re: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down

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Post by anonymouz »

With the lifetime account fiasco still ongoing [1], they should probably shut up.

[1] Joyent/Textdrive sold lifetime shared hosting accounts for a one time payment in the beginning. Those accounts would exist "as long as we exists". A couple of months back they sent an email that they are "discontinuing" lifetime accounts. After uproar from the community they offered refunds. Many people (including me) agreed to the refund, but then they decided to make another 180 degree turn, not paying out the refund. Instead they are now spinning off a new "Textdrive" that is supposed to "take over" the lifetime customers. No details about funding/general outlook/etc. of this new company has been provided so far. Questions to this end are shrugged off as "everything is perfect, just trust us, ..."

Incidentally, the new Textdrive Forum (discuss.textdrive.com) seems to be down at the moment...

Re: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down

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Post by true_religion »

wisty wrote: post #16

With a one-line pitch like "HIGH-PERFORMANCE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REAL-TIME WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS", what could possibly go wrong? No, I don't hate Joyent. I can't even figure out what they offer. And I don't see "Python" or "Postgres" or "Redis" in their tech stack page, so what would reddit (a Python / Postres / Redis site) want with them? They seem to be mostly node.js / Mongo, which is a nice tech stack…

I thought they would be a replacement for EC2, and not a Heruko-competitor. They provide virtual servers, and not application stacks.

I test drove them with regards to Picc.it, during the beginning of the year and they have a solid stack and great support. They are a little pricey though, so I decided to go with bare metal instead.

Re: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down

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Post by batgaijin »

comice wrote: post #7

If this is gloating about the EC2 outage, then ugh. I can't find out if it is because the whole of joyent.com is actually down for me (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT)

Uh, no, this is how about switching to the main supporters of node.js would immediately remove a problem that the #1 vps provider can't handle.

Re: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down

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Post by true_religion »

bslatkin wrote: post #11
thejosh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if your IaaS goes down, that's your fault?

Yes. You are responsible for replication, failover, disaster recovery, etc.

Then what is this 'infrastructure' that they're providing you with?
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