Looking for new host

I’m experiencing a LOT of trouble with hosting provider (mt) Media Temple - who host this site. Regular readers of my ramblings might have noticed that my site is generally very slow, and often completely down/unloadable.

I decided to to upgrade to a faster, better, more reliable host - any suggestions anyone?

May 25, 2007 | Tagged Technology, Interwebs 

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6 Responses to “Looking for new host”

  1. Jonathan Bailey on May 23rd, 2007 11:56 am

    According to their site, they’re being hit with a DDoS attack. However, I noticed the slowdowns long before that…

  2. Ross on May 23rd, 2007 2:44 pm

    We’ve been with Dreamhost.com for all our blogs and smaller client stuff. They had some troubles early on, but have since done some serious upgrading and have been great. 1 click installs for wordpress etc, and dirt cheap.

    That said we use Media Temple too and haven’t had any trouble with their GridServer setup (although we only use this for Rails apps).

  3. Andy Polaine on May 24th, 2007 12:19 am

    I use Dreamhost too (and if you plug my reference name - apolaine -in I get a kickback :-). Seriously though, they are cheap, masses of bandwidth and storage and the admin panels allow for a lot of tweaking and control.

    They’re probably not as fast as others, they also suffer their fare share of outages, but they seem to sort them out pretty quick. I’ve always found them good and the support is helpful and fast.

  4. yacco.vijn on May 24th, 2007 11:01 am

    Thanks for the suggestions,

    @Jonathan - that’s the thing, there’s been slowdowns ever since they MT started this Gridserver thing, I guess I shouldn’t have migrated from whatever it was that they had before (which was rocksolid).

    @Ross - thanks, I’ll check them out.

    @Andy - you’ll get your kickback if i go kick if with them ; )

  5. Otto Jongerius on May 26th, 2007 4:07 am

    I don’t have any experience with Media Temple, but I think you might improve performance by changing the way you use Google Analytics.

    Include urchin.js at the end of you page, before you close the body (). Quick way to see if GA is the bottleneck (and I think there is a fair chance of this being the case) is to just temporarily disable it at the moment you page is slow.

    As far as other cheapish blog hosting companies go: I get the impression Dreamhost has clue *and* is affordable. I don’t get a kickback. The guys at http://textdrive.com seem to have an idea what they are doing too. Check out this post by someone who changed from Textdrive to Dreamhost and compares the two: http://toadstool.se/journal/2007/02/20/textdriven

    Cheers,

    Otto

  6. yacco.vijn on May 26th, 2007 5:36 am

    @Otto - its not GA, I actually re-added GA last week, and have had the trouble before then as well.

    Thanks for the other info, checking that out now : )

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