status.net on Joyent

Control Yourself, Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), producer of Open Source Twitter alternative Laconica and host of the popular microblogging site identi.ca, announced the launch of a private beta of a new microblogging hosting service, status.net. The new service will be hosted on Joyent, Inc. (Sausalito, CA)'s Accelerator Cloud to provide high-availability, highly-scalable microblogging sites to enterprises and Web communities.

"We're excited to be offering our services based on Joyent's excellent platform," said Evan Prodromou, CEO of Control Yourself and founder of the Laconica project. "We've really been impressed by Joyent's ability to meet our specifications and requirements for status.net, and we appreciate their help in designing the architectures and shaping this service." Prodromou added that Identi.ca, the large microblogging site launched in July 2008, will be the first site moved to the new platform.

status.net is a new microblogging service that lets anyone set up their own microblogging site, based on Laconica's functionality. Clients can make private microblogging networks for use by a company or community, or public ones that interface with Twitter, Facebook, and other Laconica-based sites. Control Yourself is accepting applications from enterprises, marketing and publishing organizations, and Web communities to participate in their beta program for the platform they call "status-as-a-service."

"Microblogging is a resource-intensive site category with very little tolerance for downtime or poor performance," said Dave Young, CEO of Joyent. "Working with Control Yourself, we have designed a persistent, powerful architecture on the Joyent Cloud that can support microblogging's high demands. We're confident that our infrastructure will help Control Yourself satisfy status.net customers."
About Control Yourself, Inc.
Control Yourself is a technology company based in Montreal, Quebec. It leads development for Laconica, the Open Source microblogging tool, and  provides commercial support and service for the platform. Status.net, its software-as-a-service platform, is in private beta and available on request.
About Joyent, Inc.
Joyent is a Cloud Computing vendor of 'Infrastructure as a Service' (IaaS). Joyent provides a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to buying and running your own IT infrastructure, while still providing all the security, cost stability, and enterprise-grade performance of a dedicated private data center.

Joyent was founded in 2004 with a seed investment from co-founder and CEO David Young and Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel. Since then, Joyent has grown organically and has been completely funded by revenue. Joyent's customers include LinkedIn, Major League Baseball, Gilt.com, Facebook, and 20,000 other companies ranging from small development shops to large Fortune 500 enterprise users. Joyent powers 25% of the daily application traffic on Facebook. www.joyent.com