Am I the only one finding the post a bit sexist as well? Since when are successful 9gag memes like "Overly attached girlfriend" pc?
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
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently they're having some SSL issues, try disabling "https everywhere" or any other similar browser addons I presume you're running!
> curl http://joyent.com/ curl: (7) couldn't connect to host Doesn't look like an SSL issue... Tracing the route to joyent.com (165.225.132.33) [...] 8 * * * 9 65.125.14.38 [AS 209] 312 msec 316 msec 308 msec 10 command timed-out
All I know is I get a time-out when connecting to joyent with https-everywhere running, and a normal webpage when it's disabled!
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, same for me. Delicious irony in my opinion
If a company is actually stupid enough to say "If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down" then I immediately lose all interest in working with that company. Childish and they obviously have no appreciation for how hard it is to properly run a hosting company.
I'm pretty sure they have a decent idea of what's involved running a hosting company being as how they're a huge hosting company.
I think what they've done is great, they're appealing to the users by showing they are users and they'll probably get a crapload of traffic because of it whether they land Reddit or not. It's already landed them the #1 slot on HN, a site where AWS staff post AWS updates!
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#57"Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): The server refused the connection." The page is down.
They do not serve https for the site, what else are you expecting to see?
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#58I read a post quite a while ago from the reddit admins bitching out EC2 after one of the last dramas, I remember they said it would be a huge migration to migrate all data across to a new provider so they would have to be solid. I wonder how their current EC2 pricing would compare to Joyent?
During the second-to-last Amazon EBS outage (that affected our RDS instances, I started migrating our database over to Joyent. Before RDS was completely restored, I had a MySQL instance up and running and our production servers pointing to the new host via SSH tunneling. As far as pricing goes, they're competitive with EC2, but, you need to factor in the amount of time that it'll take to move off of Linux and onto Solaris/SmartOS (which isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things)...
Re: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down
#59Why is this the top post?
Re: If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down
#60With 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…
"lifetime" "unlimited" "forever" etc products should always been looked at sceptically for that reason. Anything that is either finite or requires up-keep cannot be offered on these terms, it is just impossible. I actually avoid unlimited products on purpose because I think a lie is a bad way to start doing business together. Be it web-hosting, broadband, or anything else. I would prefer they just be up front and the…
If as a business you decide to offer a lifetime plan, it is assumed that you have accounted for the up-keep of the service. Joyent should be held responsible for not holding up their end of the deal.