Hosting Across Four Lifetimes
30 November 2005, 16:17
Below is a table that represents my best recollection and research concerning the various lifetime hosting arrangements provided by TextDrive. These are not meant to be binding or to put words in anyone’s mouth.
Disclaimer’s done. I also think there has been some shifting in the specs of the older arrangements as newer ones have been offered. Then, add a couple of these together and you get still another mix of specs. Finally, merge TextDrive into Joyent and a bit of additional updating happens. Here’s my take on the original offers, but watch for edits and updates:
| Mo/Yr | Called | Price | Domains | Bandwidth | Space | db |
| 05/04 | VC200 | $199 | 10 | 10GB | 1GB | 20 |
| 06/04 | LHR1 | $199 | 3 | 2GB | 200MB | 6 |
| 02/05 | VCII | $399 | 15 | 20GB | 1GB | 20 |
| 09/05 | VC3 | $399 | 15 | 20GB | 1GB | 20 |
| 11/05 | VC42 | $399 | 10 | 10GB | 2GB | 20 |
Perhaps we’ll provide another table showing how each of these has been updated to newer specs.
EDIT 1: 1LHR stands for Lifetime Hosting Redux and was briefly offered during June of 2004. That makes five offers of lifetime hosting—not four. 2VC4 is also known as The Mandelbrot.
EDIT 2: Corrected the date on the LHR from 2005 to 2004.
EDIT 3: On December 20, 2005, we got a spec for the VC accounts at TextDrive. These specs will henceforth be known as the Stairway to Heaven specs. Combine two or more and you’ll have an escalator.
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Nice work: but you are missing one of the offers: there was another small $199 lifetime offer in about June 2004. As I recall, it was three domains, 200Mb of space, and maybe 2 Gb of traffic.
It has, to my knowledge, never been upgraded like some of the others.
— Alan 30 November 2005, 19:05 #
That offer was referred to as “Lifetime Hosting Redux” in this Textdrive forum thread: http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=311—also referred to in a subsequent discussion as the “June lifetimers”. When various lifetime plans were being upgraded Dean confirmed that the “June lifetimers” would also be upgraded. His exact words were “Yes, the ‘June lifetimers’ will be bumped as well. Probably not disk space right now, but bandwidth and domains definitely.”
— michael 30 November 2005, 19:57 #
Nice job, thank you for that chart. Now, we need to get an official word on whether it’s accurate or not.
— Konstantinos 30 November 2005, 23:02 #
As for the original offers, I believe we’re closing in on a table that accurately captures what was sold. The next table ought to be laid out identically, but show the current specs since a few upgrades have been done.
— Steve 30 November 2005, 23:09 #