New Server, Please be Patient

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My Digg journey crashed the shared hosting account that Legal Andrew was using. I had been with Total Choice Hosting for years, and they’ve done a fine job. But the $4 account I had just can’t handle a traffic surge.

About an hour ago, I setup an account with (mt) Media Temple. It’s their (gs) Grid-Service hosting, which is designed to automagically scale when traffic surges. For $20 per month (actually, $17 with code “surfstation”), I now have 100 GB of space and up to 100 domains.

Media Temple has received some mixed reviews around the blogosphere. But I decided to take a leap. I’ve talked to people who have nothing but positive things to say and some people who are itching to leave for a better host. But Media Temple has a money back guarantee. And they have 24/7 phone tech support. I figured that I can take a chance. Hopefully their hosting will live up to the hype.

Please notify me of any problems. I’ll keep a close eye on things, but you guys catch things that I miss.

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7 Responses to “New Server, Please be Patient”

BiGAlex
October 20th, 2007

Thank you for the plugin “Comment Email Responder”

Cheers!
Alessio Periloso
Jake
October 21st, 2007

Maybe I’m just reading the wrong blogs, but I have yet to hear anything but positive comments about Media Temple. Seems like a great webhost.
Andrew Flusche
October 21st, 2007

Jake,

That’s good to hear. I’ve loved it so far, but I haven’t really put it to the test yet.

Andrew
investorblogger
October 24th, 2007

Yes, do let me know how that goes. I upgraded to VPS myself, at about $40pm so it’s quite a learning curve.

Kennet
John
October 28th, 2007

I’ve been using media temple for about a year and other than some issues they had a few weeks ago things have been great. The people are great and for $20 you cant beat it.
InvestorBlogger
November 9th, 2007

How’s the new server going? I looked at MediaTemple myself before using dreamhost vps.

Kenneth
Andrew Flusche
November 10th, 2007

Kenneth,

I’m loving Media Temple so far. I haven’t really put it to the test with a front page Digg post, but every other indicator is great.

There are occasional outages, but over 99% uptime. My previous server had an average response of about 11,000 ms. Now the average response time is 2,946 ms. I’m incredibly happy with that!

Take care,
Andrew