Monthly Archives: February 2007

Joyent and Corel Announce Partnership to Deliver Joyent Connector to users of Corel WordPerfect Lightning

February 27, 2007 – 5:21 pm

Today we’re pleased to announce that Joyent Connector is the online collaboration and backup component for a new partnership between desktop and Web software now available to users of Corel WordPerfect Lightning. Corel Lightning is available for free to Windows clients, and users can sign up for a complimentary Joyent Connector account (two users) in [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (28)

The Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network

February 27, 2007 – 3:17 am

Just as a technical aside (from all this “website” talk), the Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network (site) has launched and looks great. It’s our preferred way of getting things like ejabberd and tsung installed on our systems. We contribute the “SunOS” (Solaris) packages to the project, so have fun.

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Joyent.com: Now With More Jill

February 24, 2007 – 10:17 pm

click for larger version The first website for Joyent firmly established our commitment to user friendly design. A collaboration between Joyeurs – John Gruber, Bryan Bell, David Young, and outside designer Cameron Moll, and the extraordinary illustrator Paige Pooler. Joyent.com circa October, 2005 told the story of the collaboration suite on an appliance premiered at [...]

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Joyent Connector: Winter Menu

February 24, 2007 – 8:42 pm

This weekend we updated Joyent Connector, our award-winning collaboration suite, with some brand-spanking new functionality. Most of the functionality revolves around providing access to the Connector. Winter Menu It’s very important to us at Joyent that our applications match the workstyle of our customers. Connector’s access model was designed from the beginning to recognize that [...]

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BingoDisk: Two New Plans (10 and 15 GB Versions), and Unlimited Bandwidth

February 20, 2007 – 1:41 am

BingoDisk now comes in two new petite plans. BingoDisk Nano: 10GB for $19/year. BingoDisk Mini: 15GB for $29/year. We have removed any bandwidth restrictions on all BingoDisk plans. Yep, download and upload all you want, there’s no limit. [Note: but please don’t abuse us, evil Internet, or we will break up with you.] BingoDisk is [...]

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ps pipe grep: episode 11 (Imagine)

February 14, 2007 – 9:42 pm

Ben, Jason, and Dave talk about load balancing, quantum computers, Intel’s 80-core chip, Yahoo Pipes, Widgets and the harm they can do, and John Carmack. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. This week’s music: John Lennon. I bought this in Starbucks. This week’s highlighted product: nothing. Call in number: 415-226-1066.

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Multiple Team Membership Coming

February 14, 2007 – 5:43 am

We’ve got lots of improvements coming for our Joyent collaboration suite. One of most important is the ability to be a member of multiple teams at once. You can be part of your business, and part of your clients’ teams. Guest or full access. Nice.

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ps pipe grep: episode 10 (Have mercy)

February 12, 2007 – 10:27 pm

Ben, Jason, special guest Jeff (sftpdrive), and Dave talk about Accelerator speed, twitter.com implementation and what the service does and how it is different than dodgeball.com, virtualization platforms (with the introduction of Linux KVM, OpenVZ, Xen, VMWare, Solaris zones/containers, Parallels), and topics surrounding the launch of Microsoft Vista. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. [...]

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A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels

February 4, 2007 – 11:42 pm

Back in August, I posted about a good-sized evaluation I was going to start doing about the horizontal scaling of different proxy engines and load-balancers across lots of mongrels. But in short, we’ve stayed with F5’s BIG-IPs for at least one additional reason beyond their ability to handled gigabits of traffic across many many backend [...]

By jason | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (22)

The 10% "rule" for infrastructure costs

February 4, 2007 – 4:02 am

I was reading GigaOM the other day, specifically Google’s 2006 Money Shot, $10 billion in revenues, and his quote from Google’s earning release caught my eye: Other cost of revenues, which is comprised primarily of data center operational expenses, as well as credit card processing charges, increased to $307 million, or 10% of revenues, in [...]

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