Re:How containers became a tech darling, and why Docker beca...
by tosh on Monday May 25, 2015 @05:19PM
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Early TextDrive (& eventual happy Joyent customer) here.
TextDrive was incredible for hosting Textpattern (anyone else missing Textile?) which at the time was a nice and quite loved alternative to Wordpress.
Eventually it also became great for hosting Ruby and Ruby on Rails apps as well as Django apps at a time where other hosting companies struggled with it (outdated ruby versions, bad support for anything non-PHP). The people at TextDrive even helped a lot of us scale our apps.
Some early customers hold a grudge against the company because it had a strong community aspect and very openly shared ideas and plans for future features and products (some of which weren't delivered as is imho completely normal if you are open about your plans).
Tech being "fine/not fine" obviously is hard to argue about. I just wanted to add another pov.
TextDrive was incredible for hosting Textpattern (anyone else missing Textile?) which at the time was a nice and quite loved alternative to Wordpress.
Eventually it also became great for hosting Ruby and Ruby on Rails apps as well as Django apps at a time where other hosting companies struggled with it (outdated ruby versions, bad support for anything non-PHP). The people at TextDrive even helped a lot of us scale our apps.
Some early customers hold a grudge against the company because it had a strong community aspect and very openly shared ideas and plans for future features and products (some of which weren't delivered as is imho completely normal if you are open about your plans).
Tech being "fine/not fine" obviously is hard to argue about. I just wanted to add another pov.