Joyent has interesting services (disk, VPSes) that are alternatives to Amazon EC2 and S3. They're using Sun equipment for the newer services, and I was wondering if any current Joyent Accelerator or Bingodisk customers would comment on their experience. My old VC account on TextDrive was unusable for production, so I'm a little wary.
I tried using their services, but since my sys admin skills are currently lacking (for Solaris) I just stayed with my current host MediaTemple. Mainly this was because MT's ui is ^$^@$#ing awesome. I could be wrong but I believe a YC alum is responsible for MT's admin UI. I've only seen one company compare to it and their prices aren't great
not to mention there are tons of tutorials that cater to their grid services... right now we're trying to just nail as many features as possible, so we're spendind as little time as possible doing sys admin work
At RailsConf '07 I went to what appears to be the same talk. As far as I could tell, he missed the audience almost completely. The question we had was "How do I design my Rails app to scale, in case it's the next Twitter?" The question he answered was "What if you wanted to build a datacenter, so you could be the next Joyent?"
I didn't go to the talk, but from the slides I got the impression that if you're the next Twitter you'll find it cheaper to build your own datacenter than to rent from Joyent. I don't know if this is true, though.
Slides are somewhat readable, although in parts a little thin without the presentation.
I think the single thing that stuck out was how scalable Sun's Directory Server was -- supporting up to 230 million users in the Sina example he gives. Not bad.
