I signed up yesterday for TextDrive’s Mixed Grill hosting. A one-time fee gets me three great Joyent services for as long as they are around, one of which is a nice web hosting package.
Since they sign people up manually, and it is the weekend, I haven’t gotten my account information for Strongspace or Joyent, both of which I am looking forward to using.
I first heard about TextDrive when I got into Ruby on Rails development. I have since moved away from Rails in favor of PHP5, but find TD’s services the best around. I like how easy it is to set up SVN on their servers.
I am quite excited to start using Strongspace. Currently, Rachel and I don’t do anything to back our files and important documents up. Strongspace should provide a good hosted service for our needs.
Finally, Joyent looks like it might be kind of nice for us to use. I have been looking for a good web-based mail client to use while away from my computer and also a good shared calendaring system. We started using 30Boxes the other day, but will probably switch to Joyent soon.