Anyone used Media Temple

[piersk]

I'm really tempted by Media Temple (http://www.mediatemple.net)'s grid hosting package, but I've been hearing quite a few bad things on webhosttalk. Does anyone on here use them?

[stolzyboy]

i've been to the site before, but i decided against it, and frankly, i can't recall why...

i think someone else here posted a link to it or i just found it by perusing for a new host...

sorry for the vague and uninformational answer :)

[piersk]

I've posted a link for it under the "what host should i use" thread, but the seriousness of my thoughts about upgrading have been escalated

[stolzyboy]

for what it's worth, you can pick pretty much ANY webhost and find a reviews site and you WILL find people with bad experience... now, is it the webhosts fault, the person running the server, the web developer, who knows... they had a bad experience and they feel it is the hosts fault

[stolzyboy]

i do now recall reading their information, the gs (grid server) approach does seem to be a new/different way for hosting, tho i'm not real sure how i got turned off by them as it seems i would like it, maybe it was the control panel, typically places that have their own cp don't do the greatest, but some are good

[stolzyboy]

i may have read this: http://hostingfu.com/article/media-temples-grid-server

i seem to recall some of the user comments... but again, you'll get that with every host...

[piersk]

Hmmm, a lot of the links from that post give for interesting reading. Seems it's not so much a grid system, more of a cluster of load balanced web servers possibly feeding through to one NFS. Can you say "bottleneck"? (although the hardware they use is pretty cool)

[stolzyboy]

Can you say "bottleneck"?)

i dunno... do you say it different in the UK? ;)

[bradgrafelman]

i dunno... do you say it different in the UK? ;)More than likely, yes. :p

[piersk]

Cheeky!

[Weedpacket]

With silent 't's.... "bo'-lneck".

Y'nahwotimean?

(Okay, so I'm watching Snatch. For Elizabeth's sake: "two words: Jason Statham").

[madwormer2]

His accent is really strong, we don't all talk like that you know.

Especially not the programming crowd lol.

[Weedpacket]

His accent is really strong, we don't all talk like that you know.No, they say things like "lol" instead. :D

"But that's dialect, not accent."
"Shaddap."
"But suppose he uses bold a lot - would that be accent?"
"Shaddap."
"Suppose he's got a pointed stick?"
"Shaddap."

[drndrw]

I'm really tempted by Media Temple (http://www.mediatemple.net)'s grid hosting package, but I've been hearing quite a few bad things on webhosttalk. Does anyone on here use them?

It looks pretty good, and I knew someone who used it. They did not like it too much and they bought their own server insetead. But I think it is okay :).