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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).
I paid for LIFETIME hosting. The biggest reason I have not adopted NodeJS is I will never again trust Joyent and especially Dean Allen.
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 shutdow…
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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.
Here's a screenshot ( http://cl.ly/UFhp ) from one of their lifetime offers. Of note: "How long will it last? As long as we exist." At that point, early 2006, TextDrive was a Joyent company. Joyent still exists.