Monthly Archive for December, 2007

The Horror Continues - This Time with Media Temple

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on December 26, 2007
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Remember that I said a few days ago about moving hosting of picvault.org to Media Temple? After a couple of phone calls and 3 days waiting time, Media Temple CSR finally opened my account (maybe I should’ve taken the cue right there). I started moving the site’s files to Media Temple server by ftp and switched DNS to media temple name server.

The first few hours was ok, then suddenly the media temple gridserver database was down or overloaded.  At the time I am writing this, my site has already been down for over 3 hours. It seems the problem is that Media Temple MySQL servers are not gridded and simply overloads easily. I can’t even login to phpmyadmin on my Media Temple MySQL server, it would just keep kicking me back to login screen and give me “too many connection” error.

I actually did hear many horror stories about the instability of Media Temple MySQL servers before I went to Media Temple. Well I thought, how bad can it be? I can deal with occational downtime of a couple minutes. This turned out to be much worse than I thought. I wrote a support ticket and hasn’t received a response yet.

I’ll be back to write about any updates.

DreamHost sucks horror story

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on December 24, 2007
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This is an account of events happened to my client’s wordpress blog website hosted at dreamhost.com, although I am a little angry at dreamhost for taking down my client’s site, twice. I would still recommend dreamhost to those with VERY light traffic but require rich features, control, good management and customer support. Dreamhost is pretty good at hosting light traffic sites, but for busy sites with lots of visitors and surges of traffic, dreamhost definitely will not work for you, they will simply disable your site, which sucks very much.

December 22nd:

Someone submitted one of my client’s blog postings to digg, it was made popular at late night on the 22nd.

It was this article:
Seven Deadly Sins Portrayed by Women

December 23rd:

I woke up in the morning, checked my email, and was bombarded with my client’s numerous emails complaining that his site picvault.org was down. I quickly fired up google analytics and saw that there was over 2000 visitors in a hour from digg.com. My client’s site picvault.org was disabled by dreamhost within a hour of digg fame.

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