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Accelerators Now Start at US$45

By David Young 6 March 07

Joyent is pleased to announce the availability of Accelerators at US$45 and US$75 per month (or US$450 or US$750 per year). These are deployed on Sun Fire X4100s with two dual-core Opteron 280s and 285s with 16GB of RAM. Each Accelerator is its own Solaris container and its own ZFS filesystem. Here are some further details:

  • Public IP
  • Private IP for connecting to the $125/month and higher Accelerators
  • Support in a special forum for Accelerators
  • Each level will come with 5GB storage. Additional redundant storage can be added at US$1 per GB per month.
  • Transfer amounts will be 20gb for the $75 and 15gb for the $45 plan. Additional transfer can be added for US$0.20GB.
  • We have a library of HOWTOs done on topics such as getting email installed, etc.

There are a couple of things to take notice of:

  • This is not managed hosting. You are on your own.
  • Webmin is present.
  • There’s no access to BIG-IP load balancing.
  • The US$45 Accelerators will be 64 to a machine.
  • The US$75 Accelerators will be 32 to a machine.

Buy now. Enjoy.


  1. Cool… I started to read Jason’s how-to-do-it and decided NOT to go that way, so any news and surprises on a managed hosting level?

    Keep up!

    — Velimir Ljubic    506 days ago    #

  2. If you were to try the $45 option and it turned out to be a bit cramped, is it upgradable to the $75 option? Would there be a charge for that?

    — Dick Davies    506 days ago    #

  3. The bananas again! Aaaargh, I can’t resist! Whatever it is, I must buy it!

    — Raymond Brigleb    506 days ago    #

  4. @Dick: yes, you can upgrade or downgrade.

    — David Young    506 days ago    #

  5. I get so confused looking at the plans page. Could we just have it displayed in a nice table.

    Something like http://joyent.com/connector/pricing/

    where you “feel” like you are on a sign-up page.

    Putting it in a table makes it much easier to compare and read.

    — Frank    506 days ago    #

  6. I agree with Frank.

    — Johan Bergman    506 days ago    #

  7. Where is the library of howtos?

    — DL    506 days ago    #

  8. how-tos are here.

    — Jason Hoffman    506 days ago    #

  9. How will DNS be handled? Will each user be running their own DNS, or will there be access to central DNS servers?

    — Randy G.    506 days ago    #

  10. Does anyone else find Joyeur and the Accelerator pages difficult to read because of the dark brown background.

    I find the Connector pages (http://www.joyent.com/connector) much more enjoyable and easier to read, most because of the light colors.

    Just my 2 cents.

    — Doug    506 days ago    #

  11. On the Accelerator page, it says the following:

    ”... $450/annually with two months free)”

    Does that mean for $450, you get 14 months (1 year + 2 free months) of hosting?

    — Doug    506 days ago    #

  12. @Doug: you pay for 10 months, you receive a total of 12 months, thus 2 free. Perhaps the wording needs fine tuning.

    — andrew    506 days ago    #

  13. Hi,

    Just wondering if/why the -S -M don’t include the “burst to 95%” feature?

    Is this a reaction to a belief that 32/64 VMs on a single box bursting would not handle it well?

    I get the feeling that 1/64th of a DualProc-DualCore system (i.e. 1/16th of a single core) might not be that well performing without bursting, however that would be just a guess without some testing…

    I should congratulate you (however) on these plans and pricing. Only two weeks ago I was trying to convince a client of mine they should get a ‘Accelerator 64-L’ plan to host a E-Commerce RoR application that I had developed for them, however they borked at the price (customers have a tendency to be cheap when they shouldn’t be)...

    Anyhow, they ended up going for cheaper VPS hosting at another provider (192mb for approx $50), and there have been issues). If you had these plans then, you would have made a sale.

    In saying that I am saying well done on the plans/pricing, I see there is a big market for these kind of flexible/cheap VM solutions. I hope you guys make a lot of sales :)

    Also, well done on the web site updates. It is a strong improvement on what was already an example of some very nice web design.

    I personally like the brown (we have a ‘brown shirt day @ work’), however text on white is always going to be safe/easy to read.

    Cheers!

    — Tod    505 days ago    #

  14. @Tod we use Fair Share throughout, so yes burstability is still there.

    — Jason Hoffman    505 days ago    #

  15. I signed up, but haven’t received any confirmation or follow-up correspondence. Anyone else?

    — DL    505 days ago    #

  16. @DL: notifications going out today.

    — David Young    505 days ago    #

  17. Received mine a few hours ago, the confirmation at least- still waiting on anything about it being setup… anyone know what kind of lead times?

    — Paul Ingles    505 days ago    #

  18. pa pa paa ps-grep anyone?

    — Thomas    504 days ago    #

  19. @Thomas: we’re taping tomorrow.

    — David Young    504 days ago    #

  20. I’m excited to listen to todays ps-grep :)

    — Thomas    504 days ago    #

  21. We signed up Tues. AM and still haven’t heard anything back. Is this normal?

    — Jonathan    503 days ago    #

  22. They had said they’d had troubles with their email confirmation system.

    Just had an email today saying that the accelerator will be delivered the week of 19th March.

    — Paul Ingles    502 days ago    #

  23. Am on the basic shared hosting and I like it except for not having root access for the little things that you wind up needing TxD staff to do instead, or for better trouble shooting. I have had a little bit of Solaris experience and I know enough to know that I would probably prefer a GNU userland coupled to the Solaris kernel (and have the Sun specific stuff live in /opt/csw instead of having the GNU stuff there). Is this possible with these accelerators?

    — Guido Sohne    501 days ago    #

  24. Hi,

    I truly love the accelerator offer & pricing however please clarify the non disclosure/trademark/intellectual property agreements you have.

    You see Textdrive not being solely a hosting provider anymore call me silly but what’s to prevent Joyent from having a peek at an app code if it’s competing in the same business as theirs?

    Thanks!

    — Jamal    500 days ago    #

  25. @Guido, yes we likely have the same opinions around the userland and we’ll be making those kinds of changes.

    @Jamal, what you’re describing (“having a peek”) is actually and blatantly illegal, it’s not even dependent on any sort of agreements we might have. And we simply don’t do illegal things.

    — Jason Hoffman    497 days ago    #

  26. @Jason, Thanks! I just wanted to be sure before signing up.

    — Jamal    495 days ago    #

  27. What is the current delay for container setup?

    I signed up a few days ago and still haven’t heard anything :-(.

    — Joel Reymont    483 days ago    #

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