Cloud hosting package details:

SmartMachine 8GB

With Joyent, cloud pricing is all inclusive and starts at $.833* per day. Every SmartMachine is a complete solution with high performance CPU, RAM, and networking included. It’s that easy.

Network transfer within the SmartDataCenter is free, and 10TB of transfer to/from the Internet is included. At 200KB per page view, that equates to 50 million page views per month. SmartMachines are configured with an optimal ratio of 1/4 CPU per GB of RAM, with bursting up to 8 CPUs for all SmartMachines greater than 1GB in size. With networking and CPU bursting included, traffic spikes don’t generate cost spikes.
Platform:
Operating system pre-installed on the server.
Joyent SmartOS
Compute units:
A logic measure that hosting providers use to define the CPU power guaranteed for a cloud server. The exact CPU power behinds this value depends on the specific hardware and varies between different providers. 1 compute unit usually equals to about 2 virtual cores of a common CPU.
8.0
Memory:
Available RAM size on the server.
8.0GB
Disk space:
Amount of storage space available on the server.
100GB
Location:
Physical location of the data center.
USA
Price per hour:
Price you pay foran hour of an online cloud server. For pay-as-you-go plans, you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments.
$1.389
One time fee period:
Time period you reserve a server instance for by paying a one-time payment. In turn you receive a significant discount on the hourly usage charge.
None
Setup:
One-time setup fee the hosting provider charges.
Free
Burst compute units:
A logic measure that hosting providers use to define the max burting CPU power a cloud server is given. The exact CPU power behinds this value depends on the specific hardware and varies between different providers. 1 compute unit usually equals to about 2 virtual cores of a common CPU.
32.0
Price per day:
Estimated price you pay for a single full day of an online cloud server. Mainly relevant for pay-as-you-go plans.
$33.33
Bandwidth:
Internet bandwidth transfer limit.
10000.0GB
Data transfer out per GB:
Charge per 1 gigabyte of outbound Internet data transfer (bandwidth).
$0.0
Data transfer in per GB:
Charge per 1 gigabyte of inbound Internet data transfer (bandwidth).
$0.0
Extra features:
Additional features available for this package.
API, VPN options, 100% uptime SLA, Pay-as-you-go pricing, Load balancing
Control panel:
Type of control panel provided.
API, Web based
Virtualization technology:
The virtualization technology that constructs the cloud hosting insfrastructure of the provider.
Joyent SmartMachines
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Joyent

Joyent has been providing Infrastructure as a Service since 2004, before anyone called it cloud computing. Today, Joyent is the only cloud computing company that has built its own complete technology stack, runs a major public cloud on that stack, and makes the technology available for anyone who wants to build a cloud. Joyent’s Smart Technologies provide application virtualization, which is different from all other major cloud vendors who are focused on hardware virtualization. Joyent’s approach provides applications with better performance and cost effectiveness, due to higher application density and hardware utilization in our Smart Technology stack. Thousands of business critical applications run on Joyent Smart Technologies, from small businesses to fortune 100 companies. Virtually every technology and language has proven to operate well on Joyent’s technology stack and applications have scaled from zero traffic to billions of page views per month. Based in San Francisco with offices worldwide,
Company Info:
Company title:
The public name of the company.
Mercuryink, David Young
Ownership:
Company ownership type.
Privately Held
Revenue:
Estimated annual revenue of this company.
$50 - 100M ($75,000,000 estimated) Ranked 8 at HostMonk
Employees:
Estimated number of employees of this company.
100 - 250 (200 estimated) Ranked 10 at HostMonk
Supported product types:
Hosting package types supported by this provider.
Cloud hosting
Payment options:
Available payment options supported by this provider.
Credit card
Contacts:
Number of public contacts listed at Jigsaw.com.
34 contacts at Jigsaw
Jigsaw company details:
Description of this company available at Jigsaw.com.

Joyent has been providing Infrastructure as a Service since 2004, before anyone called it cloud computing. Today, Joyent is the only cloud computing company that has built its own complete technology stack, runs a major public cloud on that stack, and makes the technology available for anyone who wants to build a cloud.

Joyent’s Smart Technologies provide application virtualization, which is different from all other major cloud vendors who are focused on hardware virtualization. Joyent’s approach provides applications with better performance and cost effectiveness, due to higher application density and hardware utilization in our Smart Technology stack.

Thousands of business critical applications run on Joyent Smart Technologies, from small businesses to fortune 100 companies. Virtually every technology and language has proven to operate well on Joyent’s technology stack and applications have scaled from zero traffic to billions of page views per month.

Based in San Francisco with offices worldwide, Joyent is privately held and backed by Greycroft Partners and Intel Capital.

 

Joyent is the only cloud computing company that has developed a complete software stack, runs a major public cloud on that stack, and offers its cloud data center software to any company that wants to build a cloud. Because Joyent’s approach to cloud software is completely different from that of all other major cloud vendors, Joyent is able to deliver unprecedented economies of scale and competitive advantages to service providers in the form of higher hardware utilization and margins.

Site Info:
Online since:
The date the domain of this site was first registered.
December, 2003 Ranked 62 at HostMonk
Alexa traffic rank:
A measure of the site's popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.
Alexa traffic rank in US:
A measure of the site's popularity in US. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews from users from US over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1 in US.
Unique monthly visitors:
The Unique Visitors metric only counts a person once no matter how many times they visit a site in a given month. Unique Visitors are typically used to determine how popular a site is.
13,853 (Compete.com) Ranked 35 at HostMonk
Sites linking in:
Average load time:
Median website load time and percent of known sites that are slower.
0.789 Seconds, 19% of the sites are faster Ranked 6 at HostMonk
Contact Info:
Twitter profile:
Name and description of the official Twitter profile of this company.
joyent (4475 followers)
"Joyent provides public and private Cloud Computing infrastructure and services."
Ranked 15 at HostMonk
Address:
Physical address of this company.
507 S. Eliseo, Greenbrae, CA 94904, US
507 S. Eliseo, Greenbrae, CA 94904, US
Phone:
Official phone number of this company.
+1 925 766 6987
Official email:
Official email address of this company.
Support options:
Available support options this company providers.
Email, Phone
Terms of service:
Link to the "Terms of service" page published by this hosting provider.
User Reviews:
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Blog posts
Recent posts from Joyent blog:
Mobile Enterprise: Fixmo and Joyent Partner on Secure BYOD Management in the Cloud
Jun 22, 2012
By Jessica Binns, Contributing Editor Mobile risk company Fixmo is working with Joyent, a cloud computing provider, to deliver cloud-based mobile security and corporate data protection solutions to enable secure, managed and compliant BYOD deployments in a scalable cloud environment. The companies will jointly offer Fixmo’s defense-grade mobile solutions for BYOD security, device management, data loss prevention (DLP) and… Read more ›
Fixmo and Joyent Bring BYOD Security, Management and Compliance to the Cloud
Jun 22, 2012
Partnership Enables Organizations to Secure, Manage and Monitor BYOD Deployments using Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure  GigaOM STRUCTURE, SAN FRANCISCO—June 20, 2012—Fixmo, the mobile risk management (MRM) company, and Joyent, the cloud infrastructure performance company, today unveiled a partnership to deliver cloud-based mobile security and corporate data protection solutions to enable secure, managed and compliant… Read more ›
Webinar: SmartDataCenter: The Nuts and Bolts of Joyent’s Private Cloud Software
May 18, 2012
Join us for an overview of SmartDataCenter, the cloud software that runs the Joyent public cloud and is used to build and operate private, hybrid and public clouds around the world. James Duncan, CTO of Customer Engagement at Joyent, will give an overview of SmartDataCenter and cover the following topics: What SmartDataCenter is Where SmartDataCenter… Read more ›
ChefConf 2012
May 08, 2012
Opscode is hosting the inaugural user conference in Burlingame, CA at the SF Airport Mariott Waterfront. ChefConf will be three days of insightful demonstrations, interactive workshops, and presentations designed to help you harness the power of cloud infrastructure automation for your business. Joyent is sponsoring and Ben Rockwood, Joyent Director of Systems Engineer, is presenting the… Read more ›
MongoNYC 2012
May 08, 2012
MongoNYC is an annual one-day conference being held at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City. The conference is dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB and will feature over 40 sessions from MongoDB developers at 10gen, MongoDB users from the community, and technology partners, with presentations for both the novice and expert. One of… Read more ›
CloudPro: How cloud computing is set to change the face of media forever
Apr 29, 2012
The media have been quick to embrace the potential of the cloud and it’s a market that will look very different in the future. As cloud computing now passes from what we might perhaps call its adolescence into full adulthood, the industry as a whole is starting to refine its messages with regard to specific… Read more ›
Cloud Angle: Three Open Source-Based Cloud Alternatives to OpenStack
Apr 24, 2012
Maybe you’re waiting for OpenStack to mature. Maybe you’re testing OpenStack internally but want to see what else is out there. Or maybe you’re just curious. Regardless, now that we’ve taken a look at what OpenStack is up against when it comes to Amazon Web Services and VMware, here’s a look at how a few other… Read more ›
Webinar: Make Your Apps Run Faster on the Joyent Cloud with New Relic Application Tools
Apr 19, 2012
Please join us Wednesday, April 25 2012 at 10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET for a webinar demonstration of how to use the New Relic application performance tool on the Joyent Cloud. New Relic Standard Edition is free to all Joyent Cloud customers. It is an all-in-one Web application performance tool that lets developers and operations… Read more ›
Joyent Unveils Joyent Cloud Europe to Meet Customer Demand and Deliver Superior Value and Performance to European Businesses
Apr 19, 2012
Amsterdam-based service offers Joyent Cloud innovation that includes superior real-time performance and unmatched analytics and reliability. Amsterdam and San Francisco – April 19, 2012— Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today unveiled Joyent Cloud Europe, an extension of the US-based Joyent Cloud that will provide high-performance real-time Infrastructure-as-a-Service in Europe, located… Read more ›
ZDNet UK: Joyent infrastructure cloud touches down in Europe
Apr 19, 2012
Joyent has brought its cloud to Europe to meet demand from local companies, using a Dutch datacentre to cut latency on services previously provided by its US facilities. The European expansion, launched on Thursday, comes after the San Francisco-based company closed a £54m round of funding to give it the resources to expand globally and take on… Read more ›
Under the Radar
Apr 19, 2012
Learn about the latest IT innovations and meet leading enterprise executives for a day of discovery, networking and deal flow. A handful of the industry’s most compelling emerging startups that provide cutting edge solutions, have been selected for this gathering.  Under the Radar has been recognized as the most important showcase of innovation and deal-making… Read more ›
The Next Web Conference 2012
Apr 19, 2012
Please join Steve Tuck, EVP and General Manager of Joyent Cloud and team at the The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam 4/25-4/27. Joyent Cloud will be hosting the CxO Summit Champagne Reception, Kings of Code Hack Battle, and the TNW Business Meeting Lounge so we can get the word out about our new Amsterdam service… Read more ›
Computerworld UK: Joyent launches public cloud in Europe
Apr 19, 2012
Joyent, a cloud provider that counts LinkedIn among its customers, is launching its services in Europe today. The launch of Joyent Cloud Europe is driven by demand from the company’s North American customers looking to grow their European business, it said. “Many of our Joyent Cloud customers have experienced significant growth based on the superior… Read more ›
DevCon5
Apr 11, 2012
Find out the latest and greatest in the world of HTML5. DevCon5 provides you with the information and tools you need to exploit the capabilities of this revolutionary technology. DevCon5 is an HTML5 Developer and Mobile Applications Conference will take place at The Network Meeting Center, April 25-26, 2012. This conference is for web developers, designers, architects… Read more ›
Cloudant Data Layer as a Service Adds Support for Joyent Cloud
Apr 11, 2012
Cloudant and Joyent partnership provides scalable platform for big data application developers San Francisco and Boston – April 11, 2012 – Joyent Cloud, the public cloud designed for real-time, high-performance applications, and Cloudant, provider of a scalable Data Layer as a Service for data-driven web and mobile applications, today announced a partnership to provide developers… Read more ›
Nodejitsu and Joyent Cloud Join Forces to Deliver Node.js Infrastructure and Orchestration Tools to Fast Growing Developer Base
Apr 02, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and NEW YORK, NY–Joyent Cloud, the public cloud designed for real-time, high-performance applications, and Nodejitsu, provider of cloud management software and enterprise development tools for Node.js, today announced a partnership to deliver best-of-breed infrastructure and platform services and software to the growing ranks of enterprise and public cloud users developing and deploying… Read more ›
dtrace.conf
Mar 27, 2012
The original (and only) dtrace.conf in 2008 was a smash hit– even the analysts were raving! In pace with the Olympiad, it’s time once again to bring the community together for dtrace.conf 2012! This Joyent-sponsored community event will be held at the Children’s Creativity Museum, 4th and Howard (entrance behind the carousel) in downtown San Francisco. As with… Read more ›
Joyent Meetup: Making Quizlet Run Really Fast: Rapid Root-Cause Analysis with Monitoring and Analytics Tools
Mar 27, 2012
Join us for a presentation from Andrew Sutherland, the Founder and CTO of Quizlet: “Making Quizlet Run Really Fast: Rapid Root-Cause Analysis with Monitoring and Analytics Tools” Andrew will discuss how Quizlet – the largest independent study site in the U.S. uses application monitoring and performance tools New Relic and Joyent Cloud Analytics (with DTrace) in combination to monitor… Read more ›
MongoSF 2012
Mar 27, 2012
Joyent will be sponsoring MongoSF 2012, an annual one-day conference in San Francisco dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB. The conference will feature over 40 sessions from MongoDB developers at 10gen, MongoDB users from the community, and technology partners, with presentations for both the novice and expert. Past conferences have sold out so… Read more ›
MySQL Percona Live
Mar 27, 2012
MySQL Percona Live, formerly the O’Reilly MySQL Conferences, will be held in Santa Clara, CA. We will be sponsoring and exhibiting at this popular open-source community event. It is a meeting ground for the most dynamic exchange of knowledge and information about MySQL and closely related technologies. Sign up here
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