Strongspaceは2008年10月でサービス終了?

What is Joyent going to do for customers?より抜粋。

Here’s our plan for Strongspace. We’re not taking anymore sign-ups for Strongspace. The current Strongspace will be replaced by a new service (not named Strongspace) that will not have the economic model of the current service. It will be expensive, distributed and bullet-proof. The replacement service will likely be introduced before October, 2008. We will retire the current Strongspace on 1 October 2008. There is Strongspace functionality in Joyent Connector today, and that will remain. Customers currently on Strongspace will be allowed to continue to use the service for the next 9 months for free. If you bought Connector for Strongspace and only want Strongspace, please file a ticket. You’ll be allowed to remain on Strongspace for 9 months for free, but your Connector and Shared Hosting (or Shared Accelerator) accounts will be deleted. If you bought Connector for Strongspace and you want to keep your Connector and Shared Hosting (or Shared Accelerator) accounts, please file a ticket and you will get a coupon for 4 months of the new service for free. If you are a Mixed Grill (or similar) customer, we will be replacing the Strongspace component with the replacement product. Every current Strongspace customer will get a coupon for 2 free months (minimum) of the new service. If you just feel like saying “screw it, I don’t want to have anything to do with these guys”, please file a ticket and we will refund you for two weeks of down time.

1/12から1/21までZFSのバグでダウンしてたことを受けての決定らしい。

stp, rsyncが使えてmulti userでファイル共有できるから仕事では便利だったんだけど。代替のサービスって料金が高くなるみたいけどどのぐらいなんだろう。