Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook

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sunshine-o · 40m ago
I am always amazed how old Zones, ZFS and Jails are.

The article is right in the sense that at the time I knew about Joyent but never created an account on it and I ended up trying AWS. And the main reason was that it could run Linux.

As of today you can find a few companies providing hosting based on Jail [0] but it is very niche

- [0] https://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp/