Joyent Supports hi5 and Open Social
MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA – March 13, 2008: Expands Social Networking partnerships by providing free Accelerators optimized for the Open Social platform.
BingoDisk
Specifications
- Use your own domain or mycompany.bingodisk.com
- 100/50/25/15/10 gigabytes of distributed storage on Sun X4500s
- Easy access from your Mac or Unix computer (Windows too, but users have experienced a few hiccups along the way)
- Supports SSL/HTTPS
- Public folder
Why BingoDisk?
Access your files from anywhere
Since BingoDisk storage is accessed over the Internet, you can read and write your files from any computer using an operating system that is WebDAV capable. And you can download your files with any Web browser. Your data is always available, always reliable, and always ready.
Protected against disk failure
BingoDisk uses hardware and disk architecture that is an order of magnitude more reliable than that hard drive you may be tempted to buy down at the local CompuMall. Rather than writing your data to a single drive, BingoDisk spreads the data across up to 45 disks, which significantly improves reliability while never sacrificing access speed.
Works with other services
As of right now, you can use your BingoDisk storage just as you would any other hard drive. WebDAV provides you with a protocol to connect your BingoDisk storage with a wide variety of online services.
Works with your local operating system
For your applications, WebDAV disks look just like the disk inside your computer. You can write in your word processor, and save directly to BingoDisk. Work on that spreadsheet and save directly to BingoDisk. Open photos in your favorite graphics editing program directly from BingoDisk.
Important Note
Joyent does not maintain backups of your disk in case you delete something in error. You’re buying a disk, and you’re responsible for its contents. Your data is incredibly safe and secure, but if you delete something, it’s gone.
How reliable is it? The storage architecture is so sophisticated and redundant that you’d be more likely to have a meteor fall on your head (and a vastly better chance of an external drive failing), than losing your data on BingoDisk.