Hi folks,
Some of you will remember (and probably not fondly) the network outage that Shopify suffered back in December . We were down for 4 long hours because some clusmy oaf tripped over a power cord and took out our network switch. At that time we cursed our hosting provider and vowed to quit them and move to some golden hosting Nirvana.
Well, we found them. Joyent has won both our hearts and our hosting contract.
JadedPixel has been working with the Joyent crew (in particular, Jason Hoffman, CTO) over the past month to ensure that Shopify has a stable, reliable platform from which to grow in the future.
We have not yet found an aspect of the Joyent Accelerator service that couldn’t be described as “industrial-strength”. Sun Microsystems servers running the Solaris operating system. F5 Networks’ BIG-IP hardware load balancers, gigabit switched networks, terabytes and terabytes of networked storage… Really, the list just goes on and on.
Our plans have been made, and our moves have been plotted; the day of the move will be Saturday, February 10th. The time: 3AM EST. We are scheduling up to one hour of downtime as a precaution, but we fully expect that the move will be completely seamless both to Shopify store owners and to your customers, and that your stores will be continuously available while services are migrated to the new servers.
Watch this space for more updates as the date of the move approaches.
Thanks!
Updated references from Textdrive to Joyent, to reflect their upcoming branding
Brilliant! That’s my home too, for all the rest of my site that isn’t with shopify – so now I’m going to be 100% at textdrive. My only qualm is that the server I’m on there (harwood – shared) seems quite a bit slower than the shopify server up to now; and I’ve had more downtime than I would like on various occasions.
But I guess you’re going to have a different setup over there – all the best for saturday!
That is great news, good luck and god speed.
Hi Christina,
Yes, it is important to note that the Textdrive Accelerator service is completely independent of the shared hosting servers (different OS, different hardware, different customers).
In addition, we have made architectural changes to Shopify to ensure that we have as little downtime as possible (hardware loadbalancers, real-time database replication, etc).
That is great news. Glad to see you guys sticking close the your Ruby roots! I have used textdrive in the past and think this is a great partnership for Shopify and us as shop owners. Good luck with the migration. Lets hope for as little Down time as possible!!
Welcome!
@Ryan — head over to the TxD forum and we’ll be glad to help where we can. There’s a lot of smart people there (including Jason himself, who posts almost daily.)
Great News!
Any chance this will lead to tighter integration between the two companies. I host @ TxD and would love it if it were easier to manage domain, etc. Mine still aren’t 100%
The textdrive admin screens were terrible, almost unusable. I switched to amazon EC2. Get a UI guy, jeez!
Welcome to the TextDrive side of life ;) Can’t wait till all the “shared” hosting moves over to the Solaris side of things (real soon).
Hi,
Could you tell us once it’s done how you feel about your new hosting plateform, what hardware setup you got and how much it did/is/will cost(ing) you?
I am thinking of moving there next year (if the project I am working on does take off), but I am still re-reading their usage agreements. It seems to only protect them from copyright infrigement (you can’t copy their software) but how does it protect the hosted? Since they work in the small/medium business field with joyent, what does guarantee a company such as (for example) shopify against they overlooking their code? Not that I am being paranoid, but one never knows (plus I did not see what I was looking for in their usage agreements)…
Cheers