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20051019 Wednesday October 19, 2005

TextDrive Using Solaris 10?

TextDrive is a hosting provider that is specializing in shared servers. They are very popular with the Ruby on Rails crowd due to their openness and willingness to provide a very solid environment for hosting Rails based applications. So far, they have used FreeBSD as a foundation to provide their services.

TextDrive does share a Flikr photostream where they share pictures of their recent move or of ongoing work that occurs in their colocation data center. In this stream, there are a few of pictures showing Solaris 10 CDs, including one showing CD 1 in the tray of one of their database server.

It's just speculation on my part, but I do think that Zones would be a great tool for the type of services they provide to their customers. It would be very interesting to see where this goes.

-- Fred

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( Oct 19 2005, 10:37:37 AM MDT ) Permalink Comments [2]
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I wish they'd do *something* better. I've been a customer for a bit now and am growing very weary of servers crashing and fscking. I wrote a long note to them last week and tried to be as polite as possible...

Posted by Jeff Blaine on October 20, 2005 at 10:32 AM MDT #

Yes, we general run dedicated mysql on solaris 10

Posted by Jason Hoffman on October 24, 2005 at 01:49 AM MDT #

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