Joyentspeak
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Accelerators are Joyentspeak. Technically, an Accelerator is a Sun Solaris Container, which is a kind of virtual machine with one exception. Accelerator management is something Joyent has built out (kind of like a virtual sys admin). Joyent has code that manages and monitors the health, welfare, burstability of the Accelerator(s). That isn't part of Solaris. Everything at Joyent (applications, hosting, etc.) will be running in Accelerators. Accelerators will be partitioned, single customer, very stable, very fast, lot's of scale opportunities. Joyent is going to be bringing out less expensive Accelerators.
Bingo Disk: Online storage (now with all bandwidth included) mountable via WebDav as a network disk. Also used to serve static http files directly or though your web application.
Business hosting: will be the same set-up, but on Sun Solaris running in a big Accelerator shared between relatively few people.
Connector is a Joyent's collaboration suite.
Connector hosting is collaboration + secure on-line storage + stable web hosting. But that's not true today. Today it is just collaboration. Very soon secure on-line storage is being added. Stable web hosting will be added by April 15. Re: the definition of stable. Joyent is still finalizing the product scope, but there is a requirement that people running things like Wordpress or Textpattern shouldn't have their site down because some other guy decided to grab all the RAM on a box, etc.
Core: Term for the core trio of Joyent services--web hosting, Connector, and Strongspace.
Shared hosting: Shared hosting will be in the new Sun Solaris infrastructure (not a physical machines). Jervis (for example) will become one big Accelerator, shared between the same people as it was before. Some says a "wild west environment" for custom applications, controlled by Webmin. On Solaris, however, the recovery will be much quicker. People will migrate when they want from FreeBSD to Solaris.
Strongspace: Distinguished from Bingo Disk by using sftp access, having user-based access permissions, and no ability to serve files to the web.
Webmin: Control panel application for shared server accounts. Allows management of virtual webservers, MySQL databases, email accounts, and cron tasks.
