Joyent: Before You Start

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Did you know: We serve billions of Web pages every month.

Did you know: 10 million emails are delivered to our customers everyday.

Did you know: We manage 282 TB of data.

Did you know: Our Connector represents one of the most comprehensive (and complex) use of the Rails framework to date.

Did you know: Joyent has the largest OpenSolaris installation in the world.

It's this level of working knowledge of Solaris and the Joyent systems that makes you guys a premium service.

— Will Koffel

I use Joyent and they're rock-solid and responsive. Highly recommended.

— Josh Kaufman

I recently upgraded from shared hosting on Joyent to their dedicated Accelerator and love it.

— Matt Berther

Joyent is God's gift to Facebook developers

— Mark

The Joyent Facebook Accelerator works great.

— Andy

You guys provide the most incredible service on the Web

— Richard Blumberg

I am so glad I run all of my sites on Joyent's Accelerators. They've never let me down. The shared accelerators are great ($15/month) but the dedicated ones are a dream ($45/month)

— Jess Martin

Joyent rocks

— Joshua Clayton

The Joyent Accelerator is an amazing hosting platform that has been great for my websites. I highly recommend it to all Web entrepreneurs and developers!

— Jordan Satok

I just upgraded to a Joyent Accelerator from my shared hosting. It's so awesome. Ultimate control, super speedy.

— Rob Rhyne

I'm really happy with the new setup (it's even better than the old one) and you've made the migration a cinch!

— Hugo King

I just moved our app over from EC2 and the speed increase is amazing. It took me a minute to get used to the Solaris differences, but we couldn't be happier with the server.

— Ben Sharpe, Friends & Foes Studios

Digg's sending 8000 referrers/hour. Server not breaking a sweat; thank you, Joyent.

— John Gruber, Daring Fireball

The Shared Accelerators on Solaris rock. I love it!

— Thomas Schranz

I'm pulling off stuff on a daily basis that I wouldn't have dreamed of if it wasn't for Joyent and the gurus in their forums.

— Al Sessions

Joyent did an awesome job getting the shared hosting set up under Solaris.

— Scott Shillcock

It's a real pleasure being hosted with a company who really care for their customers. Big thank you to everyone at Joyent.

— Robin Pelham

Shared hosting on Solaris totally rocks. I love it!

— Thomas Schranz

Joyent rocks.

— Thomas Hall

The OpenSolaris environment is everything I expected and more. You guys have done yourself proud.

— Reid Stott

If you’re looking for a Web host that has practically everything one could ever wish for, Joyent is the best I’ve seen (and I’ve seen too many to mention). Fast, easy to use and clever toolbox for users. One could only wish that everything online will get this well polished eventually.

— Gustav von Sydow

We've been hosting our main site on a Large accelerator and it has been rock solid. It was easy to set up, and the performance has been great. The nicest feature is that most of our storage is on an NFS share that can be resized on demand, so as we need more disk space we just file a ticket and shortly after the disk space is increased.

— Marcus Roberts, Big File Box

My iPhone works great with Joyent’s IMAP – I love it.

— Raymond Brigleb, Needmore Designs

You folks have new server deployment down to a fine art.

— Erik Stainsby

It’s great to see that there are people with true vision and commitment to OSS in this industry.

— Michael Ströck

Your Accelerator infrastructure is the most brilliant and flexible platform ever.

— Chris, NinthSpace

Congratulations people, not just on the achievement [open sourcing Connector and Slingshot] but for the courage and vision.

— Andrew Barnett

Your vision and commitment is astonishing. It will be an honor hacking on this code base.

— Teroz, 6lines

I love this place. I really do.

— Robert Simplicio, Folding Farmer

I've gone all Joyent. It's drastically reducing my urges to purchase large servers to stick in the laundry room.

— Jay Edwards, Meangrape

The lack of a database within the Amazon Elastic Computing cloud is a killer for me. I’d rather pay more for a Joyent Accelerator and have a disk that doesn’t go away when the machine reboots or crashes.

— Joel Reymont, Wager Labs

Our Accelerator gives us 10 second reboots, raw power, and superb stability. Combined with Joyent’s superb support and commitment to building out expandable infrastructure on Solaris, I don’t know how we managed to stay with BlueHost for so long.

— Jeff Mancuso, Magnetk

If you are looking for great hosting, service, generous quotas, and a friendly community, then I highly recommend Joyent.

— Nick Carroll, ca.rroll.net

If you’re looking to deploy a Ruby on Rails application, you need to check out Joyent. The value is excellent, their team understands both development and deployment, and the system is powerful and scalable.

— Justin Garten, Postful

I’m hosted with Joyent, just in case you were wondering, they’re probably the best host I’ve ever had.

— Ashley Graham, The Smarter Fish

Joyent puts sexy back into email.

— Jeff Haynie, Hakano

I love Strongspace!

— David Kypuros

I am loving my Accelerator. If I were a race car driver, I'd have Joyent on the car.

— Noel Jackson, eight6

It is pretty cool to get root for $45 a month

— Linda Derezinski, GeoBliki

It's the best hosting you can get with fantastic community of people. Nowhere else will you find the level of expertise that exists in their forums. No where in any hosting company. Ever. Period. The Forum here is worth its weight in gold.

— Kyle Swank, Unlogikal

I think Joyent has VERY good customer service. I've had a couple of technical issues, and they respond quickly and appropriately. Anyone can put a server in a rack, but at some point everyone faces downtime and failures, and that's when the true character of a business comes through. You guys have been great.

— Peat Bakke

I love you people

— Anya Sophe Behn

Another happy Joyent customer, until 2013!!

— Frank Ledo

Joyent is the best thing that has ever happened to Facebook applications!

— Arihant Agarwal

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Before You Start

System Requirements

An Internet-connected computer, and one of the following supported browsers:

Firefox version 1.5 (and above)
Internet Explorer 7 (we strongly advise against using Connector with earlier versions of IE)
Safari version 2.0.4 (and above)

Logging in For the First Time

This guide assumes that you have already:

Signed up for a Connector™ account
Received your account information (your Web address, username, and password)

Now you are ready to log in to Connector for the first time!

For Corel Lightning users:
When you signed up for WordPerfect Online Services from within Lightning you created a profile that included various settings (like picking a domain). You should have set a default email address at this time as well. Please retrieve the email that was sent to you to retrieve your account credentials if you can not remember them. Alternatively, if you have not set up an account yet, please go to your Lightning settings and create an Online Services Account.

Log In to your Connector

Enter your username (the part before the ‘@’ symbol in username@yourdomain.joyent.net) and your password

After you’ve logged in to your Connector account, you can immediately start working and using any of the applications in the suite. But first, you’ll want to take a few moments to set up your preferences.

In the Connect application you can tie together information from all other Connector applications, and users. Go to your Connector login page (yourdomain.joyent.net)