We used SmartOS (or its predecessor) for 3+ years. The experience was overall very positive and performance was great. Joyent's reliability is outstanding. Sure, some of our software was dated but everything worked.
The bigger issue is Joyent's product lifespans. We've had to migrate our servers twice in that three or so years. Because of that, I moved to a different cloud provider. I don't know if I can expect better.
The only outage I can recall was recently when they began the process of EOLing the current product we use from them.
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We used SmartOS (or its predecessor) for 3+ years. The experience was overall very positive and performance was great. Joyent's reliability is outstanding. Sure, some of our software was dated but everything worked.
The bigger issue is Joyent's product lifespans. We've had to migrate our servers twice in that three or so years. Because of that, I moved to a different cloud provider. I don't know if I can expect better.
The only outage I can recall was recently when they began the process of EOLing the current product we use from them.