Joyent is pleased to announce that we have partnered with Sun Microsystems to provide free development and starter infrastructure to Facebook and OpenSocial developers.

Introduction to Joyent

Joyent provides cloud computing services. Joyent allows developers to grow from an idea to an initial deployment through to a fully fledged business serving millions of customers without large capital outlays and long-term contracts. Our clients use Joyent Accelerators to power large scale web applications, including apps for Facebook and OpenSocial. Joyent Accelerators are virtualized servers coupled with the highest grade network and routing fabric available. Joyent's cloud is open, scalable, and fast.

Top 8 Reasons to Run Your Application on Joyent's Cloud

Scale on Demand

Your web infrastructure can be dynamically expanded or reduced within minutes. See how LinkedIn scaled to 1 Billion page views per month

No Contracts

Pay for only what you use. You can scale up, or scale down as you need to.

Lightning Fast Speed

We provide direct connections to Tier 1 internet back-bone, Force10 switches and f5 BigIP load-balancers.

Ideal for PHP, Rails, Python & Java

Over 4,000 companies run PHP applications on Joyent. Joyent Accelerators come with everything you need pre-installed and ready to go.

Supports Billions of Pageviews

The largest application running on Joyent does over 1 Billion page views a month. Joyent’s hardware load balancers make this kind of scale possible.

Extremely Cost Effective

Real static IPs, real storage, 10TB monthly data transfer, and fantastic support all included.

Entirely Open, Loving Cloud

Joyent offers open protocols, open source solutions. Use any Language, any DB. You can move your application. No vendor lock-in.

Built By Web Scale Experts

We provide you with the same expertise to achieve scale we provide to customers running top-30 web applications.