Twitter and Joyent Divorce

"Divorce" may be an apt metaphor here. There seems to be a lot of "he said, she said" sort of rumblings.

Having said that, I've been pretty happy with Joyent so far. They offer a service which is nice for Rails apps: scaling (smoothly) vertically for a long time until you need to go horizontal.

I don't really want to spend time scaling out horizontally (eg, to AWS) until that's necessary.

Other opinions?

This reminds me of something from college. I worked in aviation safety, so one of the questions my advisor always got during interviews was "What's the safest airline to fly?"

His response: "The one that's had an accident most recently. They'll be under the most scrutiny to not screw up again."

I wonder if this is the BEST possible time to be deploying at Joyent.

I had a crappy signup experience with them. Signed up and got the automated "this will take a few days-- we handcraft everything".... What? Took way more than a week and I had to remind them that I was still waiting for my account.

Simply put, we tried Joyent with our first startup - and I still blame them for our failure.

(alright fine, the truth is we had a bad team - but they still suck!)

They've chosen Level3. Never used them but few sites I know also use them. Anyone using Level3 and wants to share their experiences?

twitter was seemingly fast after the switch, and nearly all day. Now it's crawling.