It looks like Textdrive has been sold to Joyent. (Look at the footer.) Hosting 2.0? 😉 Here’s the press release and forum post.
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It looks like Textdrive has been sold to Joyent. (Look at the footer.) Hosting 2.0? 😉 Here’s the press release and forum post.
5 replies on “Textdrive Sold”
I’m really not all that surprised that TxD was sold. It really seemed like the founders were not all that good at customer service. Hopefully Joyent will do a better job.
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I agree – I was a TextDrive subscriber for a while, but the support tended to be dreadfully sarcastic at times, the server setup honestly wasn’t that great and I couldn’t get on with the way it removed www. from domains by default. I left in the end for Bytemark, a host here in the UK.
I’ve been pretty happy with TextDrive myself. My problems including massive comment spam attakcs have been dealt with pretty effectively