The Joyent Community

Really.
I have a mixed feelings. Dizzy!

I'll be interested to hear where they are moving. At some point it does make sense to do your data center in house, though; looks like they've reached that point.

Financially based, huh? How are they making money, again?

madams wrote:

How are they making money, again?

IIRC they are still evaluating how to best do that. This is old but here is a video of an interview with Biz Stone
He goes over what he thinks makes Twitter unique and also talks about how they are still in the process of evaluation when it comes to revenue generation.
I do respect that they want to do make money in a tasteful and non-intrusive way - IOW in a way that doesn't affect the end-user's 'experience' too greatly.

Someone send GS an invite to our little forums. Quick!

So why, if Twitter is apparently rolling its own data centre, does twitter.com resolve to Verio?

I spent some time yesterday pushing back at people, including Duncan Riley of Techcrunch, who were reflexively saying that Twitter left due to unhappiness with Joyent and that Twitter would be much more stable now. I love how people make snap judgements without any inside knowledge to guide them. But it would have been nice to have some word from either party.

Me, I posit that either:

1. Joyent asked Twitter to leave, because the instability was making Joyent look bad

OR

2. Twitter is changing its infrastructure as part of being acquired by Google or MSFT

According to one source, the move to Verio wasn

andrewbarnett wrote:

2. Twitter is changing its infrastructure as part of being acquired by Google or MSFT

Hahahahahaha!!

Neko wrote:

bq.
Oh, and "GS" is Gesuschri St.

Hehe

GS is our good friend Mr. Storey. He's been following the Twitter/Joyent thing (kinda) and posting in LongBoard. Seems he didn't realize it's been openly talked about since December.

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Who lovea ya baby,

Ray

PS did you watch Lost?

kristiewells wrote:

I cannot even unbutton the blouse a little bit.

Worst news of this whole kerfuffle.

This doesn't unbutton the blouse, but sometimes when Twitter bends over, you can catch a glimpse: Scaling Twitter: stats, architecture, lessons learned

The owls are not what they seem.

And now the post of why they are using NTT (aka Verio) on their blog: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/02/twitter … prise.html

twitterblog wrote:

We have a stated goal to make Twitter a reliable global communication utility. While we continue to grow around the world, reliability is our most important measurement of success. In order to become a utility that people will use every day for more reasons than we could ever imagine, we need to earn trust.

We're proud to announce our strategic alliance with a company known for reliability. A subdivision of the historic Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT America is part of an organization capable of restoring power to an entire nation in the wake of devastating natural disasters.

This history of reliability and global perspective attracted Twitter to NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services. As Twitter grows and more people around the world depend on our infrastructure, we feel an increased responsibility to make the right decisions for the people who have helped make us a success as well as those who have yet to discover our service.

Thanks for you patience and kind words while we move toward our goals. We're very excited about this alliance and will keep you posted as we move forward with this relationship and all the projects we plan to tackle together.

Not sure how to read the above blog post.

I prefer sticking to my I <3 Joyent. What is interesting was that Joyent -> Verio -> Joyent -> Verio -> Joyent -> Verio from the IP changes during the past two months.

Jan wrote:

The owls are not what they seem.

ria eht ni cisum syawla sereht dna...

ngungo wrote:

yep .

Haha. Classic.

Last edited by gtcaz (2008-02-03 03:20:28)