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Joyent, Inc
Country: United States
Has servers in:
United States
Website: http://www.joyent.com
Average rating: 4.8/10 (6
reviews)
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| Plan |
Hosting type |
Transfer (GB)
Bandwidth (Mbps) |
Storage |
Memory |
Web server |
Operating system(s) |
Monthly cost |
Setup cost |
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| Accelerator - 1/4 GB |
VPS |
10240 GB |
5 GB |
256 MB |
Apache + Mongrel
Apache + fastcgi
Apache + fcgid
Balance + Mongrel
Lighttpd
Litespeed
Nginx + Mongrel
Pen + Mongrel
Pound + Mongrel
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OpenSolaris
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16.58 USD |
45.00 USD |
CPU is Burstable to 8 cores |
| Accelerator - 1 GiB |
Enterprise Rails |
10240 GB |
15 GB |
1 GB |
Apache + Mongrel
Apache + fastcgi
Apache + fcgid
Balance + Mongrel
Lighttpd
Litespeed
Nginx + Mongrel
Pen + Mongrel
Pound + Mongrel
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OpenSolaris
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125.00 USD |
125.00 USD |
* Load balanced VIPs at $100 per node / mo
* Shared NFS/NAS storage is $0.15/GiB/month
* NAS storage is not available on the 1/4 GB
* SSL Certificates are available
* Standard Cert: $60/year
* Wildcard Cert: $200/year |
| Accelerator - 2 GB |
Enterprise Rails |
10240 GB |
25 GB |
2 GB |
Apache + Mongrel
Apache + fastcgi
Apache + fcgid
Balance + Mongrel
Lighttpd
Litespeed
Nginx + Mongrel
Pen + Mongrel
Pound + Mongrel
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OpenSolaris
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250.00 USD |
250.00 EUR |
Additional Plans up to 32GiB are available. |
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Add your review about Joyent, Inc
Rating
 9 |
Excellent, powerful web hosting
Reviewer: Joshua, 12 January 2009 |
I've been with Joyent since they were TextDrive, and have no complaints whatsoever. It's the only "shared" hosting company I will recommend to anyone. Performance is stellar, you have full ability to customize your environment... what more could you want?
True, it's not for beginners; you do need a little bit of experience. But no, you don't need to be a Solaris admin to get things up and running.
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Rating
 10 |
Everything you need, nothing you don't
Reviewer: ajmicek, 26 November 2008 |
For me, Joyent is perfect because it's an optimal combination: a web-hosting environment with seriously powerful control over your software PLUS the unbelievably high 10TB per month bandwidth (info above is outdated) PLUS the cost is only $45 per month. It is a steal, considering the kind of performance I see.
I custom-wrote my application, which required installing Imagick and APC for PHP, along with memcached. Installation was flawless. I've gotten the load time of an average page of my site down to about 2.0 seconds (tested with tools.pingdom.com). With opcode caching of scripts and memcached work with pages, the _processing_ time to put a typical page together is right around 0.001 seconds. No typo, I promise.
So, a robust, screamingly fast server with all the bandwidth I could ever need for _less than I pay for access to the internet per month_. I love it!
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Rating
 7 |
Excellent value for money
Reviewer: Dave, 20 October 2008 |
The account creation process is manual so you'll have to wait a little while for the account to be activated. It didn't take more than a couple of hours for the account to be activated.
The Accellerator S price listed on this page is wrong. The annual cost is a little over $100. See their website for more information.
Yes, Solaris is not Linux. Joyent accelerators are not simple web hosting accounts. For your money you get a Solaris zone, root access, and all the control you need. This is excellent for people with previous experience or the patience to learn.
If you want to test out Solaris go to OpenSolaris.org and download it. Make your mistakes on a VM and don't mess around in your accelerator.
I am amazed by how much I get for my money with Joyent and am very happy with the 5GB OpenSolaris zone w/ 10TB of bandwidth and full root access. It knocks spots of most of the other limited shell and VPS providers.
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Rating
 1 |
Beefy systems, terrible terrible support and service
Reviewer: PL, 06 June 2008 |
Let's get this out of the way, a Joyent Accelerator is for dedicated Solaris systems administrators. With significant Apache hosting experience.
It is not possible to learn 'on the job' how to get your app deployed on an accelerator.
It was an absolute nightmare for me to get a *single* virgin raw Rails app deployed. Back and forth to the forums, configuration of Apache, SVN, Capistrano, setting up and configuring separate virtual servers for different users, tweaking Apache config files. The help wiki they have is outdated and gives you incorrect advice which hoses your Accelerator (leaves 503 errors because it monkeys with all virtual servers' VHosts files, breaking all domains you are hosting). This is difficult to undo from Capistrano if you are also using your Accelerator as an SVN repo, and why shouldn't you be able to do that?
The price isn't too bad, and they give fantastic performance. But this is just such a nightmare company to work with in deploying a *single* Rails application. Outdated information. Very little help from Joyent staff in setting up. Conflicting advice in the forums. I'm amazed that anyone, anywhere is able to get their stuff running there. I'm sure that if you can do so, the hardware is brilliant... but if you're a developer first and an administrator second, beware, this will test your patience.
Do *not* recommend.
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Rating
1 |
Deceptive!
Reviewer: Abby, 23 April 2008 |
Their customer service is awful!!!!!! Their responses to questions are short and cryptic. Either they have really lazy people working for them or just stupid. We moved on to Hosting Rails.
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Rating
1 |
SLOW
Reviewer: b guy, 04 December 2007 |
Took 3 days to create an account. Customer support is abysmally slow and unresponsive.
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