Loading ...First off let me apologize for the shit performance for the last week or so. Traffic has been going through the roof.
I’m currently hosted on Media Temple using a (gs) account. Even though my bandwidth, disk usage and “GPU” usage is 1/10th of its maximum allotment the site has become totally unresponsive with standard load times of 50secs during the day.
In my hunting to figure out what was going on I ran across many other folks that suffered from the same thing:
- Cavemonkey50 (and here)
- He wrote a great guide for optimizing Word Press though
- MattBrett.com apparently used to have problems until he become a MT partner
- Glenn Wolsey used to as well
- Mark Boulton
- Host Disciple (”The Grid is Falling”)
- Muffin Research Labs
I’m currently discussing alternative hosting with a few other companies and will try and get this issue resolved quickly. Thank you for your patience.
NOTE: It just took me 4 mins to load the edit page to update this post… good christ.
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October 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Hmmmm….loaded pretty damn fast for me thru safari and my iPod touch…
somethings gotta be working now!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
camel0,
I am glad to hear that things are going faster now. I have my fingers crossed that it makes it through the morning crush without incident tomorrow and that the issues have been resolved for the time being.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:46 am
They had a problem with the grid. According to them they added more resources so everything should be speeding up fine. 2 days ago my site was at a crawl and what was worst was my email wasn’t loading. (mt) is still probably one of the best and most respected host around though.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Trey,
I’m glad to hear they added new hardware to the issue. My sites have been fine since then, but I’ve also done a lot of optimization at the same time, so it’s probably 2 fold.
Also it’s fun sometimes to use dnscoop.com to see how many other sites are hosted on your same grid… I had 62 other sites hosted on my grid a few months ago, yesterday it was up to 89…. I doubt *that* is good
October 4th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Ha. Thanks for the link
I’ve had always used domaintools.com to find stuff like that out 
It’s weird… on domaintools it says 171 sits but on dnscoop it says 91. It’s still better compared to 1and1
I had a site on there a long time ago and it said 1,381… lol.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Holy shit… that’s a lot of sharing-of-hosting going on at 1and1
I’m amazed at the price when you look at hosting that has a reputation for *not* overselling… it’s always like 2x the price of whatever the big-advertised-cheapo hosting cost is.
Thanks for the domaintools link, that’s cool.