Everyone with a Twitter account is familiar with their availability issues. According to Twitter it’s just another case of bad hosting. Web frameworks like the ones used by Twitter(Rails) are very demanding and costly to scale. On demand infrastructure is becoming a very important factor for startup success, and a barrier to entry for new startups. People were rejoicing how in the Web 2.0 revolutionized the use open source software and commodity hardware to change the startup game. Although it has, new challenges are in place to meet demand(if you’re successful).
My one question is: Who’s Twitter’s new hosting provider?
In Joyent’s defense: Twitter was down as I wrote this post. I guess we’ll still get to look at weird pic like the one below (bad habits die hard):
Though they broke up, Joyent’s CEO still has his arms open:
As I mentioned yesterday, Joyent is standing ready with excess free infrastructure to support Twitter through this transition in the event that they need it.
(Via TechCrunch.)