I believe the issue at hand was that TextDrive sold "lifetime" hosting packages, was then subsumed by Joyent, who then (about a decade later) reneged on the lifetime hosting packages, scheduling them for cancellation later this year.

The lifetime package subscribers (and the community at large) were up in arms about it. Here's the earlier YC thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391669