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I moved to Media Template 2 days ago, and today was my first complete DB outtage this morning. Getting an “Error 12″ from MySQL, which ends up translating (according to Google and MySQL Support Forums) to MySQL running out of memory. Even though the site is mostly working right now I’m stairing at a “DB out of memory” message on the post page of Wordpress here… so is this going to end up being a crap shoot?
on’t know if that’s caused by a naughty grid-neighbor or what, but we’ll see how things go from here. I called and got a support tech on the line within 1 min, and my phone crapped out while he was looking into the issue, but then the site started working again, so I think he took care of the issue even after I got disconnected. I appreciate that if he did.
The other hosting company I would try out if this doesn’t pan out is DreamHost. A friend of mine, R.J. Lorimer, runs his RealJenius blog off of that service and has used it for work for a while I believe and he seems to like it. I’ll ping him about it. The only thing about DreamHost is the retardedly large Disk space given… makes me think it’s shared and over-sold… 318GB for a $20/mo account? No way am I going to try testing that by uploading ISO images of everything and seeing when it dies 
Update #1: This got dugg to front page on Digg…. DreamHost Apparently Sucks to an amazing degree of suckage…
Update #2: Oh wow… DreamHost does suck:
- Why Dreamhost Sucks
- Dreamhost Hosting Sucks Big Time
- Dreamhost getting sucky PR out on blogs
- Boo Dreamhost
- Dreamhost is REALLY STARTING TO SUCK
- Trash Dreamhost here
- Nightmare Host (From Hell?)
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August 17th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Funny, I came across your blog after Googling “MediaTemple problems” because I was thinking of switching from Dreamhost.
Dreamhost blows. I’ve had them for more than a year and absolutely hate it.
August 18th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Eric,
In fairness to MediaTemple, ever since my initial 2 weeks of hickups it’s been smooth sailing since then. I haven’t had one problem, and they continue to add features to the management interface that I already feel is the best out there.
Those are signs to me that the company isn’t just one of those “launch something cheap, then sit on your hands collecting memberships and placating users for no reason” like DreamHost seems to do.
If you hated DreamHost, I would still suggest trying out MediaTemple for atleast a month.
March 13th, 2008 at 7:05 am
what host do you use now Eric?
March 13th, 2008 at 7:46 am
I switched to MediaTemple after Dreamhost burned me for the last time. I’m happy with MT and recommend them.