This week Jason, Ben and I talk about open-sourced Java, Stephen O’Grady’s blog post about operating systems and appliances (here and here), and we finish up with a conversation about the…drumroll…future of TextDrive shared hosting. The question of sponsors comes up early in the podcast. Here’s the answer: Fatboy BBQ.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
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it’s steve, guys, not sean. no worries though, everyone does it – and better sean than the more frequent stuart or scott
Great podcast … sad though that TextPanel was not mentioned.
Steve, sorry and it’s fixed.
Doug, textpanel-textpanel comes after the backend is all fine.
no problem at all.
having an anal probe in a shared environment would certainly be a noteworthy feature. and how to (effectively) market this i agree is an important question. glossy or matte decisions aside, bottom line imho, educate your customers. teach your customers how to use the new tools. ultimately they will be your best marketing force.
what i would also do for marketing is simply create a feature matrix with textdrive along-side some of the other highly regarded ISPs out there. and make the matrix very very detailed (since it will be aimed at geeks). you’ll make name for yourself (more of a name that you already have) amongst geeks who will then in turn sign up their clients/peers/etc. if you produce a better product, they will come.
Can someone please summarize what, if anything, was said about shared hosting that I ought to know as a customer?
will textpanel be available for container customers?
I like the idea of shared hosting effectively being a small container. This certainly would take the worry out of upscaling a new app as it grows.
Can you guys turn down the music ? It really blares compared to the voices, and without warning.
@David: the matrix is on the way. @Matt: the summary is: shared will be on solaris, in containers, much smaller populations per container, and the possibility of load balancing across multiple containers. Email and MySQL will be consolidated as centralized services. Target is late December. We have more planned that I think you’re going to love. @Taco: well, that depends on the type of container you have. Today, containers are powerful forms into which the user pours whatever they want. Textpanel doesn’t make much sense in that context. @Brett: sorry about the music. We’re still experimenting.
Would you guys, please, use each others names a little more often? Maybe have everyone introduce themselves, and try to address questions to people by name. I keep getting lost in the voices, and I can’t figure out who is who.
Like when I listen to Car Talk. Wait, is that Ray or is that Tom? I think Tom’s the rougher sounding one, but it might be Ray. Wait, was that the rough one talking or the not rough one? Which one is the one who can’t drive?
My understanding was that TextPanel would be like a Webmin or Cpanel. We designers who need a powerful option for hosting – “containers” – need something that helps us make stuff work. Would be great to have a cool tool to use for that: email setup, user admin, etc.
Hey guys,
I wanted to say great job and I’m lovin the podcast, its great to finally have a podcast that covers tech news but also gets down into the geek details.
Anyways, I found it interesting what you were saying about “operating systems matter” in the last podcast. From what I understand you guys used to be on FreeBSD and moved to OpenSolaris.
So with that, I think it’d be great to hear your opinions and benefits of moving to an OpenSolaris or Solaris platform from Linux or BSD from your firsthand experience at textdrive.
Maybe even things like the disadvantages (if any) you’ve seen, how hard or easy the transition was for you guys and if you’re running OpenSolaris on x86, Sun hardware or both. I know you guys talked a little bit about the benefits last episode so if you have time in your next episode to give more details on it I’d love to hear it.
Thanks and I look forward to the next episode.
P.S I tried calling in and was wondering if you had a record message for that? I wasn’t sure if my call was going to the right number as I’m in Europe at the moment and my calls are constantly mis-routed to the U.S.
The podcasts have been great. It’s really nice to here all the cool things you guys have going on and are planning on doing. The audio was better on episode 3, but still a bit off. I find my self constantly having to turn the volume up and down to her what people are saying. Otherwise, keep them coming!!
Please get rid of the background music, you guys are not shitty radio DJs.
Hi,
A few suggestions:
– First, do some sound processing. normalize the volume. Get rid of background noise. Turn off cellphones.
– Is ben sitting on the other side of the room? I can never hear him.
– Keep the overall volume level relatively high. (You can always turn it down when listening, but there’s a limit to turning it up, so better aim high.)
– I’m also against intro/background music. I think John Gruber recently said it’s the flash intro equivalent for podcasts. If you decide to keep it, play is lower, not louder than the speech parts.
This podcast is a great thing to listen to in traffic (so you pay attention to the conversation instead of to how slow people drive), but traffic is noisy, so loud and clear helps. Specially for us slightly-hear-impaired-non-native-english-speakers.
Eh, this is textile. Thought it was markdown. (I can’t read I guess).