This time last year

At around this time last year (to be precise, one year and 2 days earlier), floatingsun was born. I [[http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/07/11/6/|had decided]] to move all my personal content off from lab machines and onto my own hosted space. At the time, not knowing any better, I had started off with [[http://powweb.com|PowWeb]]. But after about a month there, I [[http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/08/05/91/|decided to move]] [[http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/08/08/92/|to Textdrive]].

I really don’t know what convinced me then. I mean, Textdrive was not big and it certainly wasn’t famous. I didn’t personally know of anyone else who was hosted there, and yet, something told me that this would be a good choice. I can proudly say that the service has been incredible the past year. I got to hang out with the CTO of Textdrive (and now Joyent), I [[http://floatingsun.net/blog/2005/10/07/218/|got my picture taken with davie]], I witnessed the merger with Joyent, I got sucked into the life long hosting plan, and then later the life long Mixed-Grill offer.

So in another 2 weeks I would have burnt out my one year long plan with Textdrive. Technically speaking, my lifetime hosting plan will start only after that. So far things are looking great and I have nothing to complain about (except that I’m really not using my strongspace and joyent accounts — hopefully they will see some use in due course of time). So long as things keep up the way they have been, I can say that this was probably one of the best investments (value-for-money wise) I’ve ever made.