Wow, MT's grid server is incredibly interesting. Been using MT for years with few to no complaints on any level. Anyone have experience with the new service?
Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morgan Craft > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:53 PM > To: NYPHP Talk > Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: Recommendations for web hosting > services with extremely good uptimes? > > Hearing good things about Media Temples new 'Grid Server'. > From what they are advertising the grid system should balance > sites across all servers instead of clustering with the > possibility of no downtimes. > > http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/gs/ > > -Morgan > > Tom Melendez wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > I'd like to offer my (brief, I promise) opinion on this > having been on > > both sides of the fence (offering and evaluating an SLA). > I also want > > to note that I am coming into the middle of this thread, so > I may have > > missed the initial requirements. > > > > We all want 100% uptime, which as Ken said, is only good until the > > first time they are down. Really, what you want is someone who > > promises a respectable uptime and has a process in place to make it > > happen. > > > > What about an SLA? Well, my experience has been that SLA's really > > amount to "well, if we're down and you complain, we'll > refund you your > > money for the month (or period of time)." No SLA that I have ever > > seen reads, "If we're down, show us how much you lost in revenue > > (e-commerce site) and/or lost productivity > (mega-corporation) in that > > time and we'll cut you a check immediately". > > > > I admit it has been a few years so it totally possible that > this has > > changed, but I doubt it. > > > > Tom > > http://www.liphp.org > > > > > > On 11/16/06, Burak Ueda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Using Softlayer for my customers and for myself almost a year now. > >> They have 99.9% uptime SLA. There are 1~10 minutes of scheduled > >> maintenance down times in every 3-4 months. Most of them > takes less > >> than > >> 5 minutes. > >> Network is amazing, staff is professional and prices are > cheap. You > >> can get a pretty powerful box well under $200/mo > >> *however* they are UNMANAGED. *but* they have a very good paid > >> support system. They will fix/install/update anything you > want, for > >> only $3 per ticket. And they do it in minutes. > >> > >> > >> > >> David A.Roth wrote: > >> > >>> It can have great prices, fast machines with tons of disk space, > >>> wonderful customer service and be totally Linux friendly, but if > >>> they are down 40 minutes or so at random times it isn't > acceptable > >>> to an online catalog web site. While a promise of an > uptime of 99% > >>> sounds near perfect, 1% downtime can be a lot especially > when its at > >>> peak times. I might be expecting too much, and it might cost too > >>> much, but I thought I would post and see if anyone has > >>> recommendations and solutions for web hosting services that have > >>> better than what I have described in uptimes. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance, > >>> > >>> David Roth > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >>> > >>> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > >>> http://www.nyphpcon.com > >>> > >>> Show Your Participation in New York PHP > >>> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >> > >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > >> http://www.nyphpcon.com > >> > >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP > >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
