Comments on: Liquid Web down for some, Media Temple being frustrating. Grrr!

By: Rambling on a Tuesday night « SKFox.com

Rambling on a Tuesday night « SKFox.com — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:57:23 +0000

[...] users are saying Liquid Web finally came back up after a 5 hour outage for AT&T and Qwest [...]

By: Gordon McCreight

Gordon McCreight — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:06:21 +0000

I’ve also been very happy with Slicehost. If you’re totally comfortable with SSH or console root access on a bare distro installation then Slicehost is a great way to go. They don’t try to make it easy for you by pre-installing control panels… they use totally stock distros.

In my experience, the uptime has been noticeably better than MediaTemple’s. In the last month I’ve been unable to get HTTP access to the server on MediaTemple twice, and have been unable to SSH to it twice as well (different times). No such problems with Slicehost. Slicehost appears to be doing everything right, but you have to know your stuff to be able to use them.

In their FAQ, they have a question “Will this be too hard?”. The answer is “maybe”. I like their honesty.

By: Kenson Goo

Kenson Goo — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:27:03 +0000

Hi there,
Dreamhost doesn’t seem to be a good choice too. I had tried them for 3 months, and their LAMP performance is unacceptable. Finally, i got hostgator which works pretty fast, but becareful of their security protection, as my site got hacked not too long ago.

By: Jim Goings

Jim Goings — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:36:11 +0000

I’ve been with Media Temple for about 8 months and it’s been fairly unstable the entire time. My site went down 3 different times on Saturday for example. I run an external monitor to ensure availability and unfortunately, I’m only seeing about 98% uptime right now.

The worst part is that for about 10% of the time, the site loads very slowly. I wrote more with some details on my blog:
http://www.jimgoings.com/2008/04/media-temple-kills-my-inner-child/

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:35:40 +0000

I moved all of my sites from Media Temple from Slicehost about 9 months ago and I couldn’t be happier with the service. I did not MT’s grid service.

By: Shaun Kester

Shaun Kester — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:09:36 +0000

Good point Brian. The performance to date has been excellent, but when I wrote this blog post I was in the middle of a very large migration from (mt) and it simply could not have been timed more inconveniently.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:36:25 +0000

u cant find the reseller hosting cuz he is a client of magicshosting.net which i have our servers at liquidweb
all in in all shaun our servers uptime been FAR more then perfect till now.. so we cant hate on them too much

~Brian

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:21:26 +0000

Thank you for the info Shaun. Interesting approach Media Temple has taken. I think either the Grid service + mySQL container or a managed VPS will suit my needs.

By: Shaun Kester

Shaun Kester — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:54:36 +0000

SKFox.com is hosted on Media Temple’s Grid Service. It can be fast, but even with the extra $20/month mySQL container, my Liquid Web reseller is much faster. There is a certain latency with Media Temple sometimes. PHP timers will report that the script took anywhere from .3 seconds to 16 seconds to run. It is inconsistent just enough to be very frustrating. Despite that, I’ve stayed with them because their custom control panel is awesome, support is good, community is helpful, and it is something different then the thousands of hosts out there that don’t distinguish themselves at all in this very crowded market.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:11:43 +0000

Hey Shaun,

Which host is this site running on now? (and which plan if you don’t mind being more specific) I like it – it’s fast. I’m considering Liquidweb, but didn’t see the $30 reseller account that you mentioned. My current hosts MySQL performance is abysmal and I’m looking for one that can handle either WordPress or sNews with ease.