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Rocketeers,

I was beginning to search for a new VPS hosting environment, as my site will soon be launching.
I decided to read Techcrunch.com blog before the search, when i stumbled across this new Grid server hosting.
At $20.00/month with loads of very cool features, it's worth a look. I plan on switching my the end of the week.

Podcast: Interview with the CEO and Staff
http://www.fonpods.com/series.aspx?podcastid=324

Company website:
http://www.mediatemple.net/company/aboutus/

I actually played the podcast while browsing the website, and it was a very nice experience in shopping.

Sorry, i have no design skills, so i hope to at least pass on information 

btw, i have no affiliation with this company, even though we are only 10 minutes away.

First of all I have no Idea what VPS hosting is....
But,
Looks better than other hosts but personally regarding to my own host. It really sucks and to 99% of all hostings I say WOW they should get hacked or something because they are pathetic

www.dreamhost.com - it's actually insane.
When I first registered, I payed $20/month for 9600mb webspace - 40gb bandwidth.
Now im paying $16/month for 400gb webspace - 4tb bandwidth  :O

Insane, If anyone subscribes, I can give you a $40 Less - Promo Code because I will get $97 for reffering
But this is not about reffering, I seriously love Dreamhost.

The grid hosting site looks interesting to me. How is it different from standard VPS technology. Has it been proved to be reliable? Do you get the same level of control as you do with a VPS? From what I have heard, you need to put in a support ticket just to install ImageMagick. so it seems more restricted than a VPS solution


The price seems very reasonable but I always have doubts about quality when a company offers so much for so little. I see they have their own control panel. Personally all my experience is with WHM/cpanel so I would be a little reluctant to change. to a non industry standard control panel.

Support is also on the top of my list. My current host has the most amazing support I have ever come across. They basically have a guy on IRC or messenger 24/7 who answers any problems in real-time. This is very handy on a VPS as you can imagine.

Please post back your experiences when you have been with them for a few months.

If you take a look over the forums at webhostingtalk you will see mediatemple have big problems with database driven sites.

Some interesting threads are http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthrea ... ediatemple

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthrea ... ediatemple

Personally until they sort out these issues, I would stay clear. But the technology looks interesting

Hey Lee,

Thanks for the great link to the discussion on the webhosting forum. I will definitely do some more research before signing up with them.

Media Temple are probably one of the better and more reliable hosting companies out there. I don't use them myself but they wouldn't be off my list if I needed a new host.

They probably have some teething problems, but certainly, I wouldn't count them out as a dud yet

My opinion of course

It seems that they are going through some start-up pains.

Funny thing happened.... I sent them an e-mail to see how they will perform with Joomla,
and my friend called my back, saying that he saw my e-mail in his e-mail box.
Come to find out that he has started working for them a couple of weeks back.
So he'll let me know when everything is cool.

From what I have heard, mysql is going down for a couple of hours each day. Once they get the problems sorted out I may look into getting a trial account. I also heard something about you are not able to have multiple databases??

Are you ignoring my post or something?
How ugly are all those hosts, do you want to pay for almost nothing?
It actually pisses me off really much.

Jordan Bar El wrote:Are you ignoring my post or something?
How ugly are all those hosts, do you want to pay for almost nothing?
It actually pisses me off really much.

Why are you always so aggressive to people on this forum? Maybe he didn't want to join with the company you get $94 from if he joins? All yours posts seem to attack people, like the guy that tried to help you with putting the image to the left, you attacked him that he wasn't listening to you, and earlier you attacked me when I wouldn't write a step by step tutorial for you on how to put technozine into a vbulletin header.

Seriously, lighten up

Jordan Bar El wrote:Are you ignoring my post or something?
How ugly are all those hosts, do you want to pay for almost nothing?
It actually pisses me off really much.

I do believe we are after a vps styled host

remus wrote:

Jordan Bar El wrote:Are you ignoring my post or something?
How ugly are all those hosts, do you want to pay for almost nothing?
It actually pisses me off really much.

Why are you always so aggressive to people on this forum? Maybe he didn't want to join with the company you get $94 from if he joins? All yours posts seem to attack people, like the guy that tried to help you with putting the image to the left, you attacked him that he wasn't listening to you, and earlier you attacked me when I wouldn't write a step by step tutorial for you on how to put technozine into a vbulletin header.

Seriously, lighten up

I am not being agressive, also I am not going for the money, I thought I should just say that because it does takes off 50 dollars if you sign up. I'm not doing any trouble in here. If you actually read what Im saying, is that Im just mad because I see people saying oh wow 1gb webspace for 50 dollars a month thats a really good offer :O

I found this in Dreamhost Panel:

# VPN

    A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a encrypted tunnel from DreamHost to your computer, through which all your communications with your server will take place. Thus, although your data will still traverse the public Internet, it will be protected from prying eyes by strong encryption.

Flipsider wrote:I found this in Dreamhost Panel:

# VPN

    A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a encrypted tunnel from DreamHost to your computer, through which all your communications with your server will take place. Thus, although your data will still traverse the public Internet, it will be protected from prying eyes by strong encryption.

VPN is not the same thing as VPS

VPN is a networking tunnel, usually over the internet, used to remotely connect to corporate networks

VPS is a virtual private server.

Flipsider wrote:

remus wrote:

Jordan Bar El wrote:Are you ignoring my post or something?
How ugly are all those hosts, do you want to pay for almost nothing?
It actually pisses me off really much.

Why are you always so aggressive to people on this forum? Maybe he didn't want to join with the company you get $94 from if he joins? All yours posts seem to attack people, like the guy that tried to help you with putting the image to the left, you attacked him that he wasn't listening to you, and earlier you attacked me when I wouldn't write a step by step tutorial for you on how to put technozine into a vbulletin header.

Seriously, lighten up

I am not being agressive, also I am not going for the money, I thought I should just say that because it does takes off 50 dollars if you sign up. I'm not doing any trouble in here. If you actually read what Im saying, is that Im just mad because I see people saying oh wow 1gb webspace for 50 dollars a month thats a really good offer :O

it may be a better offer

dreamhost simply offers shard hosting.

where as gridserver is basically a high availability server cluster, two totally different things.

Anything new on Grid Server now?

I'm on MidPhase. They've been great so far.

I used to host my site on Site5 (shared hosting) and it was a nightmare. Sure lots of users have good experience at Site5, but it really depends on which server you're on. I, among many others are the unlucky ones and our sites go down ALL THE TIME (like a couple of hours every day and 2 days a week). Just go to WebHostingTalk and search for Site5 and you'll get an idea

I thought about DreamHost coz their plans are super. No one can beat their offers. A friend of mine hosts his site with them and the experience is actually pretty good, the speed is very fast and I don't think he'll ever be able to use up all the crazy extra storage and bandwidth DH's throwing at him every week.

Although DH does go down once in a while (maybe once every 4-5 months, in my friend's case. Always fixed quickly), but I'd say that it's pretty amazing stats given the amount of sites they're hosting. And whenever there is a problem, DH is very quick to tell everyone about it on their official blog so customers know what's going on and what the DH team is doing to solve the issue (and prevent it from happening again). Unlike at Site5, where all the "what happened to my site" threads got deleted as soon as the admins see them. Site5 does not announce "server-down" problems either (although they do have a forum for this purpose).

But then since DH does not offer reseller hosting (which I need for my web design clients), and I cannot take the risk of my clients' web sites going down once every few months (even only for 30 minutes or something), I decided that I would go for a managed VPS solution (which means the hosting company will take care of the upgrades and fixes and stuff for me although I have root access to my server).

I did a lot of research on the WebHostingTalk forum, picked DEHE and LiquidWeb based on users' recommendations, then I sent them a couple of emails asking tons of questions just too see how their support go. And I finally landed with LiquidWeb (also LiquidWeb had a promotion going on during that time ). I've been with them for about 6 months now and the server was never down. The speed might not be as good as DH but I'm happy with the stability and quick support.

I'm paying 50usd a month, by the way, for 20GB storage and 200GB transfer.