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.
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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!
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?
The bananas again! Aaaargh, I can’t resist! Whatever it is, I must buy it!
@Dick: yes, you can upgrade or downgrade.
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.
I agree with Frank.
Where is the library of howtos?
how-tos are here.
How will DNS be handled? Will each user be running their own DNS, or will there be access to central DNS servers?
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.
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: you pay for 10 months, you receive a total of 12 months, thus 2 free. Perhaps the wording needs fine tuning.
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 we use Fair Share throughout, so yes burstability is still there.
I signed up, but haven’t received any confirmation or follow-up correspondence. Anyone else?
@DL: notifications going out today.
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?
pa pa paa ps-grep anyone?
@Thomas: we’re taping tomorrow.
I’m excited to listen to todays ps-grep
We signed up Tues. AM and still haven’t heard anything back. Is this normal?
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.
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?
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!
@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, Thanks! I just wanted to be sure before signing up.
What is the current delay for container setup?
I signed up a few days ago and still haven’t heard anything
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