Joyeur Bytes - Jan 2008
Joyent Delivers Scale
Did you know the largest application running on Joyent’s infrastructure is a Facebook application that serves up over 700 million pages a month and was built using Ruby on Rails? That’s right folks - Ruby on Rails DOES scale.
We are proud to have helped this amazing client quickly scale to meet that kind of traffic and will be working on posting more about their story shortly.
We are introducing a new pricing system aimed to help our clients plan for this kind of growth (think optimistically!). We now have much larger versions available, including Accelerators that come with 8GB, 16GB and 32GB of RAM that are ideal for large databases and, of course, can be grouped into clusters that include 100s of GBs of RAM.
We also changed the names as it seemed silly to have machines called 3XL, 4XL and 5XL. We simplified the naming convention to just state the amount of RAM that comes with your Accelerator.
| Accelerator Name | Dedicated CPU Resources | Included Monthly Bandwidth* | RAM | Storage | Monthly Fee | Yearly Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/4 GB | 1/16 | 10 TB | 256 MB | 5 GB | $45 | $450 |
| 1/2 GB | 1/8 | 10 TB | 512 MB | 10 GB | $75 | $750 |
| 1 GB | 1/4 | 10 TB | 1 GB | 15 GB | $125 | $1,250 |
| 2 GB | 1/2 | 10 TB | 2 GB | 25 GB | $250 | $2,500 |
| 4 GB | 1 | 10 TB | 4 GB | 50 GB | $500 | $5,000 |
| 8 GB | 2 | 10 TB | 8 GB | 100 GB | $1,000 | $10,000 |
| 16 GB | 4 | 10 TB | 16 GB | 100 GB | $2,000 | $20,000 |
| 32 GB | 8 | 10 TB | 32 GB | 100 GB | $4,000 | $40,000 |
As always, our Accelerators are built on OpenSolaris, multi-core (8+), RAM-rich servers (32GB+ each) with vast amounts of storage. Accelerators are deployed in the best routing and switching fabric (Force 10) and the best load-balancers (F5 Networks) available.
*We have also increased your bandwidth. Now, each customer can move up to 10TB per month, for FREE. If the average song on iTunes is 4.1MB, then 10 TB would be the equivalent to 2,557,502 songs. Amazon’s EC2 would charge you $1,800.00 a month for that kind of traffic. With Joyent, it is FREE.
If your site takes off and moves more than 10 TB cap, bandwidth costs $0.15 per GB.
Powering Over 11% of Daily Active Users on Facebook
In November of last year, we announced that Joyent was teaming with Dell to give away $3.2 Million in Joyent Accelerators to Facebook Developers. Our goal was to give developers the power to quickly create and deploy Facebook applications capable of scaling to millions of users.
So far, the program has succeeded tremendously.
Of the current total 14,939 apps on Facebook, 6% run on Joyent. But, the big deal comes here - according to Adonomics, on January 23rd there were 34,175,797 daily active users and of that number - 3,713,675 users came from applications that currently run on Joyent.
Joyent powers applications that reach 11% of the daily active application users on Facebook - and we are really proud of the reception we have received from the Facebook developer community.
Visit us on the Web for more information on the program, and to apply for your free account.
(Textdrive) BSD Server Migration to (Joyent) OpenSolaris Servers: Get Your Golden Ticket Now
We have been touting the new server environment we launched on OpenSolaris for a couple of months now, and thought we would give you a few more reasons why you should be asking for your ‘golden ticket’.
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Welcome Linda Derezinski, Rod Boothby and Blake Burris
We are happy to announce the addition of Linda, Rod and Blake to the ever growing Joyent team.
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Step One: Consolidate Forums
One of our goals for 2008 is to bring all the Joyent properties (Joyent, TextDrive, Strongspace and BingoDisk) under one roof to make it easier for you to find information when you need it, fast. We took the first big step recently and merged forum.joyent, forum.textdrive and forum.strongspace into one master forum at discuss.joyent.com.
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Strongspace and BingoDisk: Outages and Updates
As many of you already know, BingoDisk and Strongspace suffered a major outage several weeks ago. Our CEO posted a statement on our blog reporting on what happened, how Joyent plans to compensate our customers, and what we plan to do in the future with Strongspace and BingoDisk.
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Customer Spotlight
Stafftool
Toby Sterrett just launched Stafftool, the easiest way to manage their people, events, and communications. They are currently focused on churches and non-profits, but anyone needing a powerful communication tool can use it. And a special note - they are currently offering 200 lifetime ‘M’ accounts, so if this peeks your interest, buy it now. Deals like this are hard to come by.
J.D. Justice
We love that our community is full of developers, SysAdmins, designers, gamers, painters, photographers, and musicians. J.D. is of the latter genre and is quite a creative fella, writing his own music and producing videos to boot. Check out his music as we are sure you will quickly see why we have grown quite fond of him.
LOLCode
What can we say that has not already been said about LOLCode? Adam Lindsay wrote a programming language based off of Lolcats/Cat Macros and to say it spread like gangbusters through the geek community would not do it justice. He got Dugg, Slashdotted and so many pats on the back, we think he was bruised for a week. Congrats to Adam on his success and we can’t wait to see what comes next.
If you would like Joyent to highlight your project in Joyeur Bytes or on our website, please send a little information on your application to kristie [at] joyent [dot] com.
Tips and Tricks - Connector Workspace, from Josh Roebuck
The Workspace is a place where you can view selected groups (list view) from any application
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Bites – not Bytes
You don’t get the rocking bodies we have by shying away from a good plate of food. And while we tend to eat out quite a bit, some of us happen to be pretty good cooks, so we thought we would start collecting favorite recipes from our fellow Joyeurs to share with one another to ensure our BMIs continue to hover around the 29 mark.
Got a favorite recipe or wish to suggest topics for the next newsletter? Please add them to this post and we will do our best to work it in.
We hope you will find this newsletter interesting and will keep on reading. We plan on sending these little nuggets out about six times a year, and appreciate your feedback to ensure it continues to provide information important to you. Please send your comments to kristie [at] joyent [dot] com.