Free Developer Program Terms
Facebook, Joyent and Sun have partnered to 
provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage from Sun.
Facebook developers can take advantage of Joyent Accelerators to quickly launch Facebook applications capable of scaling to millions of users. All for free.
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What’s Included?
A Joyent Facebook Developer Accelerator includes everything you need to develop and deploy your Facebook application. The platform is based on the Joyent Launch shared platform.
Note: We do not currently support Windows, and do not plan to do so in the foreseeable future.
How it works
Sign up. The Accelerator will be yours to use free for a year. All that we ask is that your Facebook application be ‘active and in use’. Any Facebook account that is dormant for more than 30 days will be reclaimed.
You’re going to love your Facebook Accelerator. We’ve seen developers like you do amazing things with this free service. Please note that these free Accelerators are intended to serve as a development environment. Our goal is to help you get off the ground. After your app goes live on facebook, you will likely soon need to upgrade to a larger Accelerator on one of our monthly or yearly plans.
Some additional terms: Due to the limited resources available, and the overwhelming positive response from Facebook developers, we’ve modified the terms for the free Joyent Facebook Accelerators. You must use your free account within 30 days after receiving log-in credentials from Joyent. You must also log into your account once every sixty days via ssh or webmin. You can have as many applications on the Facebook Accelerator as the resource quotas allow (512 MB RAM and 10GiB Storage). You may also build applications on non-Facebook platforms, however, your Facebook application must remain active and in use in order to remain qualified for this program. An active Facebook application is defined as application that has more than 50 total users. The number of users is obtained from this URL: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=<Your.app.id>. Within that page, the total number of users is calculated as being equal to daily active users divided by percentage of total users. One Accelerator per person.
Price
Free for a year. One Accelerator account per person. It’s free. Cancel at any time. No contracts. The full price list is for our monthly and yearly plans is here.
Special Notes: The Free Joyent Accelerator™ cannot be used with BIG-IP load-balancing. Mail pre-configured for outbound SMTP only, limited to 500 recipients per hour. There are no limits on the number of OpenSocial users your application may host. * We reserve the right to deal with abuse.
Support
Joyent provides no support for this free service. Knowledgebase is here. We also have a very helpful and knowledgeable user community on our forum, where you can ask questions, pitch ideas and get to know other facebook developers.
Fine Print
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