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harrierSD · #1 10-17-2006, 02:10 PM

Has anybody seen this yet?

http://www.mediatemple.net

Seems like a good deal, and I might move all my shared hosting accounts over to this.

OnlineRack · #2 10-17-2006, 02:17 PM

sounds good, how easy is it to customize it .... I see that php is an added package, where it is usually in by default. do they back it up!!!!
More testing but looks good.

jerett · #3 10-17-2006, 02:22 PM

At the moment I can't access their site.

mwatkins · #4 10-17-2006, 02:24 PM

I see they got rid of the "flash only" intro page that I complained about last week. I wouldn't mind learning more about the actual underlying technolgy supporting their "grid server".

Apparently mt have no problems with the overselling game. I wonder if they'd mind if I used one of their accounts to transfer 1 TB for only 20$?

http://www.mediatemple.net/company/l...up_general.php

Their AUP is fairly liberal, which is nice. There appears to be nothing limiting the opportunity to set up a simple Ruby service on a 'gs' "Ruby Container" which did nothing but chew up their bandwidth.

But come on, 1TB for 20$? I'm sure they aren't the only ones taking overselling to that level but... come on!

jerett · #5 10-17-2006, 02:25 PM

ahhh very nice. interesting plan.

harrierSD · #6 10-17-2006, 02:29 PM

I'll let you all know, if I decide to sign up, how good it is.

timdorr · #7 10-17-2006, 03:05 PM

Sounds like they're using Solaris Containers for this stuff with some custom scripting for migration. If anyone does get one, can you log into SSH and run "uname -a" so we can see what these boxes are running?

dcabbar · #8 10-17-2006, 03:41 PM

This I believe is a revolution in hosting industry, and probably would be the base for it in the upcoming years, of course given that media temple can make it work.

This is basically: Google for rent

timdorr · #9 10-17-2006, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dcabbar

This I believe is a revolution in hosting industry, and probably would be the base for it in the upcoming years, of course given that media temple can make it work.

This is basically, Google for rent

Actually, it's just a high density VPS. Nothing new, realistically. Just that you don't get admin access so they can increase density.

thetimehascome · #10 10-17-2006, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dcabbar

This I believe is a revolution in hosting industry, and probably would be the base for it in the upcoming years, of course given that media temple can make it work.

Hardly. There is nothing new about offering loads of stuff for next to no money.

RossH · #11 10-17-2006, 04:04 PM

Do they offer ssh access with the plan or what?

timdorr · #12 10-17-2006, 04:18 PM

According to their knowledgebase, yes they do: http://kb.mediatemple.net/article.php?id=110

jerett · #13 10-17-2006, 04:21 PM

Sort of off topic but

I liked their old site better.

dcabbar · #14 10-17-2006, 04:45 PM

Quote:

The new (gs) Grid instantly and automatically scales your site during sudden traffic surges so you do not have to worry about last minute server upgrades. The (gs) Grid keeps you informed every step of the way with resource usage monitors you can see. The days of arbitrary, ever-changing resource limits are over. Standard in each (gs) Grid-Server plan is a generous allocation of Grid Performance Units (GPUs) sufficient to power 95% of any site we've ever seen. If you happen to be one of the lucky ones with massively growing traffic, you can rest assured that the Grid has you covered

Did you read the details about this plan at all? They are talking about clustering, real-time load-balancing and scaling over multiple servers as necessary, probably a RAID based/fault-tolerant file system over NFS via fiber, probably clustered mysql servers, etc.

Please read the details before labeling it as a simple scaled-up VPS? All VPS and Shared hosting are based on a single/powerful server which is prone to errors/overloading -specifically IO-, but this approach is similar to (of course in a much smaller scale) what Google has been doing... And, it is based on paying as you go according to how much you use out of this cluster...

Please correct me if what I am saying is wrong, but it looks very promising to me. But again, it looks good on paper, and nobody knows how it will scale in real life given the complexity...

extras · #15 10-17-2006, 04:53 PM

It's interesting.
I was talking about HPC/HA type of thing, yeasterday.

I would like to know more about the redundancy level of their setup,
and the technology used.

(A bit more technical info than we can read in this page and in the links form there.)
http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/details.htm

But I'm glad to see there are hosts going to this direction.
And the pricing isn't bad for the kind of setup, which can cost a lot to construct.

I hope other competitors would try slightly different technology and compete against each other, so that they get better and better, and also to eliminate bad hosts from the industry.
Everyone would suffer less.

DC can offer grids(container?) or a block of nodes (depending on the technology)
instead of individual server, I guess.
If they do, a small host can benefit from the setup to achieve the same type of redundancy and resistance.

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