Cloud Computing and Joyent Services

In what began as a web hosting startup, Joyent has now come up with something that is different from anything else that is being done with on demand computing: offering it all for free. Indeed, its business model is to help fledgling Facebook application developers find their niche by offering them free hosting for their applications on Joyent’s own servers.

Apparently the company has an association with Facebook through venture capital, and it will be providing a direct link to the Facebook servers with a high speed fiber connection. This will save developers from time out problems that have plagued them in the past on Facebook. If someone were to open an application and it did not load in five seconds, in the past it would time out. 

Of course, the thinking here is that if an application gets big, Joyent could reap benefits along with Facebook. The concept of opening infrastructure to the potential of getting the next big idea is a good and profitable way to conduct business in the cloud computing movement that is going on today.