MediaTemple and (gs)

Recent visitors to my blog will have noticed that (apart from the domain change) there is also something else new. I made an aside post to test that the domain was resolving nicely, but I’ve moved from my old host at HostGator (an account with whom I intend to keep for a while) to MediaTemple’s GS service.

I’ve decided to try out sharing a (gs) account with a good friend of mine, Donald Kelly. He has also written a post about the same thing - we’re going to see if two medium-traffic sites (and a low one or two) can manage to share a (gs) account effectively. Hopefully, we’ll be able to continue this until we outgrow it, and then maybe move onto a (dv). You never know.

We discussed MediaTemple for a while on AIM, before I suggested sharing. His response was something like this:

It’s worth a go!

So, we’re giving it a go. At the end, we’ll look at our stats, and see if we continue from there. I’m hoping we can manage this, if we cache our pages, then our GPU usage should stay low, and we should be able to get away with it, which would be amazing.

I’ve heard all the stuff about MT being rubbish, but to be honest, I have a long term client on a dv with them, and that’s been amazing. Support, server, uptime, the whole lot. I can’t see why gs won’t be the same, and if we hate it, we’ll leave again. It’s really that simple :)

As for the move, it was really simple. I’ve decided to put the innards of my blog in a subdirectory, because it keeps the main directory clear of clutter, which is always good. Then I transferred the database, and it all worked perfectly. Uptime has been 100% so far, and the control panel is beautiful. So much nicer than any others I’ve ever used.

Just got to wait for MT to sort out Urchin, and I’ll be away. I’ll post about how it went in one months time, start of September, and whether I’m staying or not.

Watch this space!