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05-19-2008, 04:00 PM #1Newbie
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Best Grid Hosting
looking at Grid Hosting providers 2 stand out
hostingplex.com and mediatemple.net
Both have
100GB storage
1 TB bandwidth
shell access
host 100 sites
HP features
$96/yr
Cpanel
backups
cluster system
multiple dedicated ip address $2.5/mo enables multiple SSL certificates
downtime unknown
MT features
$200/yr
Plesk
single IP - offers single dedicated SSL plus shared SSL
grid service - if grid goes down it takes 1000's of sites with it.
average downtime 30min/mo
Which one would you choose for the best service? Are there others to consider?Last edited by renoir; 05-19-2008 at 04:10 PM.
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05-19-2008, 06:31 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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I did a search on media temple here on the forums, and my initial search showed several negative reviews.
And on hostingplex it seems like there were several topics questioning their integrity.
It might be worth it to look around a little more.Last edited by dvduval; 05-19-2008 at 06:34 PM.
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05-19-2008, 07:18 PM #3Retired Moderator
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A thing that may be worth noting is that MT's (gs) service will sooner or later be replaced by (cs). (http://www.mediatemple.net/labs/cs/) How this migration will be carried out, whether (gs) customers can stay on (gs) indefinitely, are important questions for anyone buying their shared hosting for certain qualities/features it currently has or portrays.
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05-20-2008, 02:42 AM #4Junior Guru
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average 30minutes a month? if you go to http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog...-availability/ you can see that so far this month they have had over 120 minutes of downtime this month. They are honest about it atleast.
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05-20-2008, 08:47 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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I think that if you like them so try both one by one
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05-20-2008, 09:18 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Are you looking for a true grid service, or just what host market as a grid?
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05-20-2008, 09:52 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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What is the importance of it being a grid service anyway?
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05-20-2008, 09:57 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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05-20-2008, 05:00 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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We've done multiple tests on Grid hosting and so far we have not found it to be reliable on a large scale. It's not so much a technological issue but rather a profitability issue.
So far we've found that clustering is the best way to achieve maximal performance across multiple platforms.:•: iMountain.com Solar Powered Hosting - Same location for 20 years
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05-20-2008, 06:20 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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05-20-2008, 06:21 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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Grids ie server-clusters in this case?
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05-20-2008, 08:25 PM #12Location = SoapBox
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Grid hosting, as is being defined now (ie load balanced clusters) is very reliable if done correctly - and quite profitable.It expands the benefits of services clustering even more so that you can not only utilize specialized nodes, but, now you can distribute loads across multiple nodes - which means much more effective utilization of resources, increased reliability and dramatically increased ability to burst...
the issue with grid hosting, or distributed hosting or whatever you want to call it is the same issue with every hosting... over allocating servers (or in this case, groups of servers) to a point where it is almost impossible to maintain low load averages and ultimately performance. A grid or a cluster or whatever cannot justify TBs of storage and bandwidth allocation for the prices being advertised out there...
our biggest concern with launching this service is what to call it. I simply hate the thought of calling it a Grid, because in reality, it is really distributed hosting, not grid hosting. But, considering our target audience will want to call it a grid, it may be hard to market it without the word grid in there someplace... I am torn on this issue right now - lolwww.cartika.com
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05-20-2008, 09:26 PM #13Disabled
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There's also the issue of a grid != a cluster. Companies tend to call things "grids" that have no right, from a technical standpoint, to be called a grid.
This is a grid
This is not.
A 'grid' definitely sounds trendy though....
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05-20-2008, 09:31 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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You should probably not choose any of the two 'grid' hosts - they offer the world for so little...
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05-20-2008, 09:33 PM #15Location = SoapBox
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05-20-2008, 10:08 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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I call mine: Server Cloud
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05-21-2008, 09:54 AM #17Disabled
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Right, but the term "Grid", at least to me, and granted I'm not an average consumer, implies particular things which a cluster cannot offer.
I'm likely just being overly picky, but I think a lot of the 'grid' providers from last year were committing fraud.
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05-21-2008, 12:02 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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05-21-2008, 12:55 PM #19Location = SoapBox
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agreed
yup - but, its a legitimate problem as the consumer audience now believes grids and clouds, etc refer to something other then what they really mean....
you are both right, this isnt the way to go with this. Calling a high availability cluster a grid is just inaccurate.. and certainly misleading.. it may make it more difficult to market initially, but, that isnt a valid reason to contribute to consumer miseducation....
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05-21-2008, 12:58 PM #20WHT Addict
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05-21-2008, 01:00 PM #21Disabled
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..but this was all last year - so very 2007.
I hereby proclaim this 2008 AD to be the 'Year of the Cloud'. Providers, start your marketing departments!
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05-21-2008, 01:49 PM #22Web Hosting Master
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05-21-2008, 02:21 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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Yes, but the same goes for the peeps on Twitter (sic) shouting out terms like "SEO", "SEM", "I'm so geeky", "I just hacked my iPhone" etc etc.
Thus, the competence level has not gone up, it is only the bullcrap that's been reaching new heights and the channels to spread this *beep* are now more direct, faster and even wider.
You're killing me, Karl!
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05-21-2008, 03:51 PM #25Web Hosting Master
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