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By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:58:53 +0000

oops, just realized this one’s still on Media Temple too :(

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:11:31 +0000

Sorry I wasn’t very spcific in my last response. It depends on which sites you were looking at. I have a few that are still on Media Temple, and yes, their load times are still slow sometimes. One was down for almost 45 minutes last night. I have site monitors that let me know when latency or downtime occurrs. So far, the LW server hasn’t had a problem.

As of now, The FMC Directory and Talk About Marriage are on LW. I haven’t gotten any latency reports on those since the move. World Spearfishing Guide and a few other small sites are still on one of my MT accounts, and I’m in the process of moving them still.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:32:31 +0000

FYI – when I posted that previous comment your sites load times were over a minute. This was why I asked. I may have just been a routing issue or something though. Maybe I was still getting pointed to (mt).

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:19:46 +0000

Yes, their dedicated server support is the best I’ve ever experienced. The server is ultra fast too. I think this is going to be a good solution.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:57:28 +0000

Have you moved your sites over to liquid web yet?

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:39:58 +0000

More news (DOWNTIME) from Media Temple:

http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/2007/10/11/maintenance-scheduled-thu-oct-11/

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:41:42 +0000

Update:

I have begun moving my sites to the new server on LiquidWeb. Their dedicated hosting support has been incredible so far.

As for Media Temple, my site monitors have been sporadically going off for the last two days now. Usually brief outages lasting 3 minutes, but there was one last night for 37 minutes. Media Temple keeps saying they have fixed the problem, but that’s simply not the case.

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:24:10 +0000

Yeah, I got that on one of my accounts – just requested it for the other. Who are you going with?

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:13:50 +0000

FYI – mt is giving a 1 month credit for the issues. If you didn’t have a ticket open, just open a new one asking for the credit. They gave me mine right away. Unfortunately it is just a credit (not a refund) and I’m moving my sites off anyway, but now I have more time to settle everything down and that time will be free.

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:18:21 +0000

Yeah, LiquidWeb. I read a lot of good reviews about their support, and that’s one of the main things that sold me.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:48:20 +0000

who did you end up going with? Is that liquid web?

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:05:34 +0000

Here we go, for $210 / mo., I hope this works out:

Processor: Intel E4500 DUAL CORE
Memory: 2GB DDR SDRAM
Hd1: 160GB 7200RPM SATA / 8MB Cache
Hd2: 160GB 7200RPM SATA / 8MB Cache
RemoteBackup: 50GB Remote Backup
(+Offsite Backup)
OS: Linux – CentOS 4
ControlPanel: CPanel / Web Host Manager
(+ServerSecure)
(+Fantastico/XController)

I’ve also set up managed DNS, so that I will be able to host backup copies of my important websites elsewhere, and switch to them instantly in case of a failure. I’m excited about the prospect of not having to worry about what my hosting provider will do next!!!

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:41:44 +0000

I am now looking at dedicated servers on LiquidWeb and a few others. Good luck to you too.

Oh, webhostingtalk.com seems to be a good resource too.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:30:25 +0000

I too ran into the mt troubles! I moved their in August after doing a bit of research and speaking with their support who does a great job at marketing! They sold me, so I moved three sites over there, all of which are database driven. And as you found as well, it was… let the games begin! The first was my final snapping point. I have since pulled all of my sites back off of mt, which is a huge pain in and of itself, and moved back to my shared hosting accounts on hostgator.com. I have been with them for quite some time, but they also have some speed issues when traffic gets extremely heavy. I will be testing their private hosting now and report back, but I will also check back here to see what you may have found.

Good Luck!

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:07:08 +0000

Day 2: the saga continues:
http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-incidents/web-and-email-latency-on-gs02-grid-service-cluster-2/