# What is Joyent's Accelerator?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-joyents-accelerator/270807>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 14, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-joyents-accelerator/270807 "2008-09-14T17:22:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-joyents-accelerator/270807/1 "2008-09-14T17:22:23Z")

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Hey so I’m looking for highly scalable hosting solutions (preferablly managed) that can take millions of hits a day. First thing that came to mind was (mt)'s Grid Server, but then I have used it before and it was a lot less than optimal. Then Joyent’s Accelerator came to mind. What is it exactly? Their website says nothing specific about it’s “cloud computing”. It looks like I’m still buying a virtual machine, which isn’t a cloud at all. Chime in whoever knows?