{"id":5714,"date":"2012-08-16T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:01:15","slug":"joyents-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/joyents-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyent&rsquo;s &ldquo;Lifetime&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/112783391065033208484\/posts\/16WyAvu37wE\">Ken McKinney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4391669\">Hacker News<\/a> report that Joyent is reneging on its lifetime hosting plans that were promised to be honored for &ldquo;as long as we exist&rdquo; (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nriley\/status\/236149303880609792\">Nicholas Riley<\/a>). They also haven&rsquo;t given customers much notice before the October 31 sunset date.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2012-09-06): TextDrive co-founder <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4455896\">Dean Allen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4455896\"><p>I&rsquo;d like to announce that on November 1st, 2012, TextDrive will relaunch anew as a separate hosting company, staffed and funded, run by me. Please consider the recently announced end-of-life for Joyent&rsquo;s shared hosting customers now revised to be a continuation-of-life, to be carried out in the same friendly, creative, publishing-centered spirit of TextDrive&rsquo;s early days.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken McKinney and Hacker News report that Joyent is reneging on its lifetime hosting plans that were promised to be honored for &ldquo;as long as we exist&rdquo; (via Nicholas Riley). They also haven&rsquo;t given customers much notice before the October 31 sunset date. Update (2012-09-06): TextDrive co-founder Dean Allen: I&rsquo;d like to announce that on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}