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Did one of Joyent’s recently circulating ads touting a free year of Accelerator hosting for Facebook applications tempt you to head over to Joyent site and sign up?  Still waiting for your account?

Right. About that.

Turns out that Joyent has been advertising the program for months (it’s been running since November), the program is limited to 3500 developers at a time, they’ve been overwhelmed by registrations, and they only allow new developers on when they kick off those with accounts deemed to be inactive — which could mean 300 open spots one day, or none for weeks at a time.

Developers have asked for more clarification on wait times, or even some notice before signing up that there’s a long waiting list, but so far that hasn’t happened.  Looks like you might be better off starting elsewhere unless you really, really need that free year of hosting.