Media Temple v2

I’m going to hold off from posting a review of Media Temple’s (dv) (VPS) plan for another date, probably after I’m completely happy with the setup and I have some more experience with how they handle support and uptime.

So far the support has been outstanding. Currently I’m on the base dedicated virtual plan that (mt) offers but without Plesk. This was a major requirement for me in moving to (mt). Thanks to their awesome support they provisioned my system fairly…

After this rsync is done I’ll be completely on Media…

After this rsync is done I’ll be completely on Media Temple (dv). Next up canceling my spry account, posting about setting up a (dv) without plesk and installing yum, and then optimizing the server with zend and caching. Oops, I need to through off site backup in there somewhere too, maybe amazon S3 and a home rsync will work perfect. [Link] (2)

fedora over ubuntu

One of my tasks this week was to setup a web server for some sites currently hosted on the tragedy of the grid. I don’t want to talk about the (mt) grid since I’ve said so much about it before but to answer “why?” I’m still on the grid for production sites is, I’ve been too busy to migrate them and at one point I was going to put them on a spry VPS but my DB was too large for their…

Server Upgrade

I upgraded my server yesterday to the VPS300 plan at Spry. My old server was being hit pretty hard and wasn’t managing to serve the pages at a decent speed, actually if you made a visit in the last few days you would have thought the server was down. I was told with the upgrade my server would be placed on a different nod that has fewer servers so I should see a big performance boost. From what I can…