TextDrive shuts down

http://discuss.textdrive.com/

by Stratoscope • 12 years ago

21 12 12 years ago

discuss.textdrive.com

It's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?

oomkiller• 12 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive

pbreit• 12 years ago

The Wikipedia accounts of both TextDrive and Joyent do not sound accurate to me. Joyent was started a year or so (early 2005) before it acquired TextDrive (late 2005).

oriste• 12 years ago

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318940

billturner• 12 years ago

I collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...

chimeracoder• 12 years ago

That doesn't really seem to paint Joyent in a very favorable light.

IMHO, it wasn't a good idea for TextDrive to sell lifetime subscriptions, but if Joyent knew that when they purchased TextDrive, they should have continued to honor them.

anthony_franco• 12 years ago

Such a shame. I don't know about their latest iteration, but TextDrive used to be one of the few hosting companies that hosted Rails applications. Back in the Rails 0.10 days when many other hosting companies didn't even know what Rails was.

For a while they were the official Rails hosting company and helped many of the first Rails developers get their first sites up and running. It's a real shame to see them shutdown.

jacquesct3• 12 years ago

What was an added bonus is in those days rails core members were providing rails support on TextDrive.

opendomain• 12 years ago

I paid for LIFETIME hosting. The biggest reason I have not adopted NodeJS is I will never again trust Joyent and especially Dean Allen.

jacquesct3• 12 years ago

As I recall your account was cancelled by Joyent for abusing the support staff and you were offered a refund at that time of your account.

TextDrive shuts down

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