My name is Rod Boothby. I head up the Evangelism team at Joyent.<p>It's true that some of our user interface stuff needs improving. We are planning on delivering some powerful solutions in the near future.<p>Over the past year, we have been focusing on helping clients deploy truly massive sites. The largest Ruby on Rails application in the world runs on Joyent.<p><a href="http://www.joyent.com/a/scale-rails-to-1-billion-pageviews" rel="nofollow">http://www.joyent.com/a/scale-rails-to-1-billion-pageviews</a><p>Joyent has helped clients like ABC, CNN, Disney, Boston.com, and Gilt.com to deploy and scale sites that deliver Billions of page views a month.<p>For example, we have a Drupal site running on Joyent that can support 2.5 Billion page views a month.<p>Over the last month, we have delivered to clients solutions that you simply can not get from some of our competitors mentions below..<p>#1 Joyent VPN Cloud - a secure cloud deployment that is segregated at the switch level. This delivers the PCI compliance required by large sites.<p>#2 Joyent's Virtual Data Center software - we will be announcing more in the next few weeks, but the first instance of this product was delivered to a client in Japan in December '08. Even with virtualization solutions like XEN or VMWare, most data centers can only achieve 8% to 12% utilization. Joyent's Virtual Data Center software can help large data centers to achieve up to 80% utilization.<p>#3 Joyent Cloud as a Service API. For an example, check out what Aptana has down with Joyent's API: <a href="http://www.aptana.com/cloud" rel="nofollow">http://www.aptana.com/cloud</a><p>The stuff coming down the pipe is also really interesting.<p>The first includes a new tool that lets you fully instrument a production application and get true performance analytics designed to help you identify bottle necks and you to true Application Performance Level agreements.<p>The second is a new web based interface that lets you manage complex cloud deployments.<p>If you have questions, our would like to learn more, please feel free to ping me directly. ( rod at joyent ).
I litereally just, JUST. Like two moments ago, paid for a year of a 1Gb Accelerator.<p>What has Joyent done thats bad? I know their control panel is a tad clunky, but their support has always been top notch - sure its slightly pricey but I feel really confident they wont fuck up.
I left Joyent several years ago for much the same reason. Their shared hosting was unusable for Rails. Joyent's Accelerators look like a nice solution, but they are significantly more than a VPS. I've been with VPSLink for several years and am very happy with them.
I actually haven't even migrated off the FreeBSD servers yet. I'll go when they tell me to, but I don't need anything more than I've got.<p>I've had them for 3 years and been very happy with their service. (Though I agree that their long-promised big improvements sure haven't happened since becoming Joyent).