Joyent Core: Live
We’re a couple months late (billing systems…), but now Joyent customers get all our consumer applications for a simple, low price. We call it “Joyent Core”. $15/month (or $99/year) gets you:
Shared Hosting Account (from TextDrive)
Includes 5 websites, 5GiB of space, 5 databases, 15GiB bandwidth
On-line Backup and File-sharing (from Strongspace)
5 users, 5GiB of storage.
Collaboration Suite
Includes 5 users, 5GiB of storage and email, calendar, contacts, files, bookmarks with more applications and features to come.
We also have tiers at $50 and $100 month. You can see all the details here.
[Existing Joyent customers are being migrated to Joyent Core presently for no additional costs.]
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Honestly, I don’t enjoy being a pedantic killjoy, but couldn’t “all our consumer applications” be construed as including Bingo! ? I know what you mean, but other people seeing (say) the list of four products over on the right side of the page might have unrealistic expectations.
Will you be setting up the redirects for mail accounts and home.example.com as well or is that still a separate request?
BTW, great work guys, this is HUGE
As a current Joyent Connector customer (since early December), I had a couple ideas that I was hoping that you guys would think about.
First, the Connector is a wonderful piece of engineering. It’s looks great, works great and basically is great. The are a couple of things though that you could do to make it even better now that you are rolling everything into Joyent Core.
The main thing that I think your team could do is actually roll everything into one interface. I hate having to bookmark three different login sites just to access the individual components of Joyent Core. Instead, one central Admin site should be made consisting of the Connector, Textdrive and Strongspace. I’m assuming that since all new sign-ups will get Joyent Core regardless of what individual product they sign up for, this saves you guys a ton of work because instead of having to maintain three individual websites (Connector, Textdrive and Strongspace) you now only have to maintain one (Joyent Connector). This also has the added benefit of bring Strongspace and Textdrive more inline with Joyent’s branding and site design.
Another change that I think you guys should consider is adding “Mark as Read/Unread/Flagged” buttons to the Mail application in Connector. I’m not sure why these were omitted when the application was first designed, but can you honestly point me to an email application from some company that DOESN’T have these? Even Hotmail from Microsoft includes these buttons so why didn’t you guys do so?
The last thing would also be a benefit of rolling the three products into the one central Admin interface. As it currently stands, file uploading in the Connector is a “somtimes go/sometimes no” situation. I’m not sure about anyone else, but I’ve had several file uploads stall out on me without any explaination why. And the fact that you don’t have a progress indicator doesn’t help matters much either. However, Strongspace works great… I’ve never had it fail or stall out on me yet. Bringing everything under one interface means that you can use the Strongspace technology to facilitate file uploads in Connector. This also gives end-users like myself the ability to see the full status of their storage space instead of having to log into three different apps to know exactly where they’re at.
In the end, I think that these are things that could vastly improve the usability and productivity for end-users like myself. I understand that these aren’t things that you can make happen by just snapping your fingers, but do please consider them.
Thanks again!!!
@Lou: still a separate request (today…maybe not later).
@Frank: all those items are in the pipeline. You have good ideas. Want to work at Joyent?
So, uh, as a Textdrive customer, how can I use Connector?
If I purchased one of them hosting for life packages a while back… do I count as an Existing Joyent Customer?
It would have been nice to get an email to this effect before I saw all the signups show up in my inbox. Scared the bejeezus out of me that someone had broken into the account and signed me up for higher costing plans…
So, does this mean that TextPanel is complete and available for all to use?
As soon as TextPanel becomes available, I\\\’ll become a Joyent customer
So now I’m offically confused – I was on the base Textdrive package and in October I got this email
As a happy Textdrive customer of 2 years at that point, the modest increase in price together with an increase in the service was cool with me. However now it seems that the same thing is now $99 a year which is less than what I was paying for just Textdrive (so if you haven’t signed up it’s a great deal!). Will I get the extra $50 as credit towards next years bill?
BTW I haven’t recieved any mail regarding the upgrade yet (strongspace or connector login details) – presumably it’s going to take a while to churn out emails to all customers?
Kevin – as you can imagine, rapid changes such as those we’re making to our services can lead to a bit of chaos. Some of TextPanel’s features are shifting around as we move to a central Joyent Core billing system, and hence development is less public than I’d like it to be, but rest assured it’s coming along nicely.
Paul – the $99 yearly price for the Startup plan is a limited-time special for new signups.
I’ve received no e-mail as of yet, so I’m wondering the same thing Caleb is above – what does this mean for VC customers? Are we included in this? (I was a VCIII.)
@Ryan: you can upgrade to Mixed Grill (=lifetime Joyent Core) for $99. Please review this forum post.
I’ve received emails about Connector and Strongspace… but I’m no longer (currently) a Joyent / Textdrive customer. I’ve confirmed that the Strongspace account works, so I guess this is “for real”.
Is this some nefarious plan to get us lapsed members back in the fold?
I am still a little confused. Before the change I was a long time TextDrive customer with an additional Strongspace account, but now everything has doubled. Two connectors, web hosting, and Strongspace. Why couldn’t you just combine everything I already have onto one core account? Seems a bit wasteful since I will likely not use the extra accounts.
Aaron, I had the same thing happen and put in a ticket. Just let them know what happened. I think they didn’t want to just assume accounts could be combined.
All this new technology is great, but I’m going to have a hard time selling it to any of my clients or feeling comfortable with it for any of my projects if I don’t feel solid about the support that comes with the service. Historically, your support has been nothing short of stellar. In the past month it has been dismal. I get that you are busy with your new stuff but I have two clients now that want to be moved off of your shared hosting accounts because the 3-4 day email support ticket turn around time isn’t cutting it. I think you guys are great, but I’m having a hard time selling the warm and fuzzies that I feel for you to my clients when the responsiveness right now is so bad. Seriously, I don’t mind being patient and waiting for support on my own projects, but some of my clients want results right away. Is there some way I can pay more for more responsive service? Ironically, I sent an email in to you guys last week asking if upgrading to a business account would come with more responsive support, and… no response. LOL. Help me out here. I really want to keep my clients on your servers!
Follow-up to my previous post (#18): A couple of hours after submitting my comment, I was contacted by Joylent. Since I was being a tad complainy, I kind of expected a slight air of defensiveness (my Pavlovian Media Temple reflex), but I didn’t get that at all. Over the past day, they’ve been very helpful, and incredibly responsive to my barrage of questions about hosting options. Warm and fuzzies completely restored. Thanks Joylent! And, sorry for being a bit of a blog booger.
@Elliot: it’s Joyent. Joylent is the drink we injest here at the company. Joylent Orange. And, any time.
Ooops, that’s funny. Joylent orange is people… AHHHHHH!
Just for clarification…
The text drive ‘Startup – Shared Hosting Plan’ seems to be identical (in price and features) to the $99/year ‘joyent core’ plan listed here https://customer.joyent.com/signup
Could you please confirm that the Textdrive component of the $99/year ‘Joyent Core’ plan is identical to the stand alone text drive $99/year plan?
i.e. Would it be correct to assume that from now on when you buy ‘textdrive shared startup’ you effectively get ‘joyent core startup’?
Thanks, I look forward to signing up with you
Tod
@Tod Nicholas Thomson
You are not alone on being confused on whats called what.
I think an Accelerator = = Container.
I think Joyent Core = = the bundled web-hosting, strong storage, bingodisk etc.
I think “Jill’s Team” = = Joyent Core.
I think Solaris 10 build 44 is on some servers. Build 54 is on some other servers, and FreeBSD is on something else.
I am also confused with all of these different marketing names for the products we know.
I’m also confused on when things will be released.
Is Joyent Core / Jill’s Team out right now? And if it is, where exactly do I signup. Is it the link you mention above?
Also, is TextPanel released yet?
I’m really confused because blog posts constantly say that “next month” these services will be released – then you never hear about it again.
Then when next month comes, the service is re-branded as something else, and will be available “next month”.
I am not trying to be cynical, I’m truly and honestly confused like you.
Oh, and another thing. If you look at the Accerelator page.
http://textdrive.com/hosting/accelerator
It’s really not clear what exactly you are purchasing. From the look of it, it simply looks like you are purchasing the right to use the server. Meaning, it doesn’t allude to it being a web-server at all.
If I didn’t know better, the Accelerator page looks like I am purchasing time on a mainframe or something similar. Something other than a web-server