Joyent: free hosting for high-volume Python apps, if you give us customer info

Seems like Joyent's stopped pretending to be a real company. Weak, unhinted at parody like this is something you'd expect from a blogger, maybe, but the fact that they don't care whether they confuse their customers or employees with this is odd.

But, I guess when your whole business is supposed to be storing people's data and instead you end up making it inaccessible for over a week (http://tinyurl.com/2pt8g3), you stop caring.

This post and Joyent's last post (http://tinyurl.com/6p49xk) certainly make it seem as if they're scared of App Engine and what Google is doing.

Late April Fools? I hope so. At least the customer info. part.

hmmmm... i have been looking for a similar "sponsor" host for me and my hacker friends... we will be contributing for a dev house. the Joyent idea is great but not for everyone, we don't have 25K visitors/month :P

anyone interested in hosting some of our apps and our apps-to-be? PHP5, MySQL, RoR, etc... yes, this is a shameless plug because funding is out of the equation here, no Y Combinator or Launchbox since i am from cebu, philippines...

And if you don't mind using their mutant Solaris...

Ha, the first comment is priceless "Is this for real!"

i think they are secretly working on some high level AI stuff that requires lots of worldly data

That already makes me incredibly suspicious of Joyent.

I'm.. not sure I will ever use them. I mean, what're they gonna DO with all that data?