Comments on: $3.2M give away of Joyent Accelerators for Facebook Developers

By: steve

steve — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:04:54 +0000

I got the email about 5 minutes after I posted this

By: steve

steve — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:43:40 +0000

have they hit the 3500 developers yet? I registered on Tuesday and haven’t heard anything yet.

By: David Young

David Young — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:44:33 +0000

@Frank C: No. We are not using xVM for any Accelerators. We continue to support, and think it superior, Solaris Zones as the basic virtualization technology. We think it is far more stable than Xen. But that’s just my assertion, at this point. We’re working to provide some test data in the near furture. Because we aren’t using xVM today for Accelerators, we’re not ruling out using Xen or VMWare (for that matter) for other types of compute needs (batch, for example).

By: Frank C.

Frank C. — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:28:50 +0000

Any word if Joyent is using openxVM for the Accelerators?

http://www.openxvm.org/

By: Kristie Wells

Kristie Wells — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:23:28 +0000

@NoHost: the Facebook Accelerators are on Dell servers.

@J.D. Justice: I updated the page to note a 72 hour turnaround on the new account setups. Anyone who signed up Tuesday/Wednesday will get theirs by Friday.

By: J.D. Justice

J.D. Justice — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:49:07 +0000

@Mike Clark It does say that developers would be sent their details within 24 hours on the signup page, but as referenced by this post from the Joyent forum I think everyone that got in will receive their welcome email within the next 2 days. @NoHost It looks pretty clear from the details given that the Facebook Accelerators will indeed be running on Dell servers.

By: NoHost

NoHost — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:13:12 +0000

I think they are offering free Accelerators on Sun servers and not on Dell. Dell is just a backup partner in case they run out of capacity on Sun servers.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:05:21 +0000

@NoHost

I don’t think Dell donated $3.2 million worth of servers … it’s Joyent donating $3.2 million worth of free service.

Note that 3,500 (M) Accelerator accounts are being given away for free for 1 year.

A (M) Accelerator cost $75/mo.

So: 3,500 account x 12 mo x $75/mo = $3.15 million.

Dell probably pitched in the 50-60 servers need for all of these accounts to run on.

By: Mike Clark

Mike Clark — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:56:21 +0000

I am excited about what seems to be a great deal. However, I signed up over 24 hours ago and have not received any information at all. Upon signup, I was promised that I would receive everything in less than 24 hours.

By: NoHost

NoHost — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:54:44 +0000

I understand they are new servers, but are they Dell servers? Which models are they and why would they donate $3.2million worth of equipment?