TextDrive shuts down

#1

Post by Stratoscope » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:09 PM UTC

TextDrive shuts down
discuss.textdrive.com

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#2

Post by odonnellryan » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:24 PM UTC

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#3

Post by oomkiller » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

odonnellryan wrote: post #2

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#4

Post by oriste » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:36 PM UTC

odonnellryan wrote: post #2

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318940

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#5

Post by anthony_franco » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:38 PM UTC

Such a shame. I don't know about their latest iteration, but TextDrive used to be one of the few hosting companies that hosted Rails applications. Back in the Rails 0.10 days when many other hosting companies didn't even know what Rails was.

For a while they were the official Rails hosting company and helped many of the first Rails developers get their first sites up and running. It's a real shame to see them shutdown.

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#6

Post by billturner » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

odonnellryan wrote: post #2

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

I collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#7

Post by pbreit » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

oomkiller wrote: post #3

odonnellryan wrote: post #2

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive

The Wikipedia accounts of both TextDrive and Joyent do not sound accurate to me. Joyent was started a year or so (early 2005) before it acquired TextDrive (late 2005).

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#8

Post by chimeracoder » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 7:08 PM UTC

billturner wrote: post #6

odonnellryan wrote: post #2

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

I collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...

That doesn't really seem to paint Joyent in a very favorable light.

IMHO, it wasn't a good idea for TextDrive to sell lifetime subscriptions, but if Joyent knew that when they purchased TextDrive, they should have continued to honor them.

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#9

Post by TempleOSV2 » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 7:20 PM UTC

fuck-it

God biotches

God says... no_more_tears this_might_end_badly middle_class you_never_know ahh what's_up how_about_that play hope bank joking happy_happy_joy_joy thats_right fortitude quit Tomorrow vote I_am_not_amused baffling

I removed CDocBin.type

That's why old graphics files don't work. You fix it.

Fuck you.

No Shutdown, just turn-off.

Re: TextDrive shuts down

#10

Post by opendomain » Mon, Mar 03, 2014, 8:34 PM UTC

I paid for LIFETIME hosting. The biggest reason I have not adopted NodeJS is I will never again trust Joyent and especially Dean Allen.