On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:40 -0700, Paul Norton wrote:
> Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> >
> > Use caution with MT. We get many new customers that come from them.
> > http://blog.robwebb2k.com/2007/10/02/mediatemple-meltdown/
>
> This article is almost a year old.
>
> "Our pages took ~.5 - 1 second to load, which is not great, but not awful."
>
> Really? OH NO... NOT .5 SECONDS!
>
> Certainly the rest of the article shows unacceptable performance. Isn't
> this company new and offering some new special whiz bang type of
> hosting? Probably not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket
> there robwebb2k.
>
> Also, for this one bad review I'm seeing here, I've seen about 20 other
> super awesome reviews from "big named" web peeps over the last year (or
> 'tards however you want to look at them). Then again, look at all the
> idiots that are still hosting with Dreamhost.
>
> - Paul
>
>
Indeed the article is a year old. Here is one that is still ongoing and
started on 7/21/08:
http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-incidents/2008-07-21-gs-grid-service-cluster2-services-are-unavailable/
I like their communication, and I am sympathetic to their difficulties,
but gosh... those problems are tough. I am a fan of *simple* and their
system is not simple. It makes problems hard to fix.
Indeed, there are many people who are happy with them. And, as you say
there are still many people happy with Dream host... and AOL for that
matter. However, when we sign up new people, I always ask how they came
to find us and why they are leaving their current host and who are they.
It's unscientific info for me to learn what is out there and what people
like and don't like.. to improve and maintain M5Hosting to the standards
that people want. What prompted me to reply to this thread was that we
have a very high number of people who use MT's grid hosting service that
move to a dedicated server with us. They always cite slowness as one of
the reasons. When I probe deeper we it seems to always be disk IO
slowness... ie: database stuff.
It can certainly be that the number of people that move to us from MT
is merely a function of how many customers they have and that some
percentage of people are going to be unhappy. I mean, we get around the
same (maybe a tad more) number of people that move to us from a
dedicated server at GoDaddy. At GoDaddy, the reasons are many... must
use their mail server to send mail not your own server, the OS choices
until very recently was Fedora Core 3 or Windows. They now offer
"CentOS" or Fedora 7.
The robwebb2k blog is not the only place or person that I have this bad
IO feedback. He just happens to be one person that has made those
comments, and moved to us... and he wrote about it so I can point you to
it. I can't point you to the people that share with me similar info on
the phone. :o)
Mike
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