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By: zee

zee — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:06:43 +0000

Please, check this out.

By: Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:08:55 +0000

@Chris: While I agree that it was excellent of them to write that up, it doesn’t dismiss all of the latency issues that have been occurring on the grid lately.

They apparently added more hardware “clusters” to the grid that was supposed to fix the problem, and the next day we were back to square one with more latency problems. I know it’s a huge system, but I really feel that it wasn’t ready for production use just yet and should have spent more time in testing. I was part of the beta program and while it was great to see this new technology develop, there just wasn’t enough of us to really push the system to its limits.

But, I digress, this thread was supposed to be about helping Stu to pick a new hosting provider and I’ve kind of hijacked things.

By: Chris Blow

Chris Blow — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:25:39 +0000

If you are thinking about moving to the gs, make sure that you dont miss this article from the mt blog. Extremely informative, and commendable that they wrote it up. (I run about 30 sites in a $20/mo gs account.)

By: Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:21:10 +0000

@Stuart: I'm in the process of migrating to some shared space at A Small Orange. Great service (I was a customer about a year back) and their service offering and pricing is very competitive.

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:49:30 +0000

@Jeff: Care to mention your new provider? I’m certainly interested in considering all options.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:44:59 +0000

Have to agree with Jeff, takes around 8 seconds to load the first page of a site in some cases, I have some websites hosted on Site5 which do not have this problem so I can’t blame the distance factor (I’m in Scotland).

By: Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:25:04 +0000

I’m currently in the process of moving all of my sites away from the (gs) at (mt) to another provider. Since the grid has been put into production, I’ve experienced nothing but latency issues, poor MySQL performance, and downtime. The (gs) was actually a lot more stable in beta than it has been in production.

If you run any mission critical apps, or have any client sites on board, I would think twice about the (gs). The concept behind it is awesome, however the implementation leaves something to be desired.

By: Kyle Korleski

Kyle Korleski — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:51:43 +0000

I am on (gs) at the time being and while there were a couple of issues with it, I haven’t experienced anything serious recently.

By: George

George — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:33:28 +0000

I’m on (dv) 3 having moved over from (dv) 2 and think the price and flexibility are great. I run multiple sites on the server for multiple clients without any problems. I know basic Linux administration on top of Plesk so it suits me well.

As for the (gs) I’ve heard many people who loathe it and think it is a marketing term rather than anything really new. I’ve also noticed a few sites not running well on (gs) – Mark Boulton being one of them.

(dv)3 doesn’t have out of the box support for PHP5 which might be a consideration although you can get round it.

(gs) has Ruby and PHP4 and 5. $20 a month is not really going to break the bank though and you can always upgrade to a (dv) if you need to.

For my two pence worth I have no complaints on (dv)3 – it costs less than my mobile phone bill too!