Okay, I get that migrating costs time and that's definitely not free, but saying that Jason upselling is false. It's been repeated by a number of commenters here and it's starting to bother me.
I'm a lifetime Joyent (TextDrive) member. When Joyent started offering newer shared hosting accounts, they allowed me and all other lifetime members the opportunity to migrate. No new fees, no hassle. Just a nice, shiny new space. To me, it's a testament of their support that they didn't try and keep all the lifetime members stuck on the old FreeBSD system.
I also find it unrealistic to expect lifetime customers to never have to migrate from one server to another. Do you really expect the server to run for 20 years without ever having to do anything yourself? Seriously, take some responsibility for your site and move to the latest supported service.
So there are no monthly fees after migrating from the old TextDrive servers?
It sounds like the offers to migrate have either not been sent to all or the messaging has been inconsistent as to costs/ease with which this can be performed.
I'm a lifetime Joyent (TextDrive) member. When Joyent started offering newer shared hosting accounts, they allowed me and all other lifetime members the opportunity to migrate. No new fees, no hassle. Just a nice, shiny new space. To me, it's a testament of their support that they didn't try and keep all the lifetime members stuck on the old FreeBSD system.
I also find it unrealistic to expect lifetime customers to never have to migrate from one server to another. Do you really expect the server to run for 20 years without ever having to do anything yourself? Seriously, take some responsibility for your site and move to the latest supported service.