It seems I may have spoke too soon. Although I experienced some hosting difficulties initially at Mediatemple.net, but since then it has been smooth sailing. My client’s site is still receiving thousands of hits per day as of now, but Media Temple is serving it up lightning fast and without any complaints. It seems their grid-server plan does live up to their promise of surviving traffic surges. One word of advice, be very careful with your mediatemple GPU usage. A bad script can rack up GPU very quickly, on the first day my client’s site on my account used up a total of 37 GPU, which would have put me over the limit if I used that much every day. I find that this was a good opportunity to optimize my code as the mediatemple GPU report will tell me which files are costing the GPUs. After optimizing my wordpress plugin codes, now I am only using about 1.7 GPU per day! what a difference. It made me realize many inefficiencies in various wordpress plugin codes and my own codes. Which was really nice. I am liking Mediatemple more and more every day. (although I still love DreamHost).
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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.
