If this is gloating about the EC2 outage, then ugh. I can't find out if it is because the whole of joyent.com is actually down for me (net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT)
I think what they've done is great, they're appealing to the users by showing they are users and they'll probably get a crapload of traffic because of it whether they land Reddit or not. It's already landed them the #1 slot on HN, a site where AWS staff post AWS updates!
An informative post explaining the hardships of uptime and reliability in simple words, and how they do their best to keep adding 9's, would have been so much better.
This is just a PR stunt to gain some customers. Simple, but apparently working (even here on HN, which is quite sad).
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
Tracing the route to joyent.com (165.225.132.33)
8 * * *
9 65.125.14.38 [AS 209] 312 msec 316 msec 308 msec
10
command timed-out It's not just you! http://joylent.com looks down from here.
joyant.com is up. [...] ip of 208.91.197.128