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Re: On servers and MediaTemple

edlerartieda — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:16:01 -0000

Sounds expensive, but if you had to hire someone to manage it for you, it could be double this. If you are just getting DB timeouts, rather than having problems with bandwidth, perhaps your WP install needs tweaking.

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Club Penguin Cheats — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:34:02 -0000

If you had to hire someone to manage it for you, it could be double this. If you are just getting DB timeouts, rather than having problems with bandwidth, perhaps your WP install needs tweaking.

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edlerartieda — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:17:59 -0000

MediaTemple’s Dedicated virtual Extreme is very interesting topic i really like it.....

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Takuma Sato Sunglasses — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:19:18 -0000

I agree with monty that it is simply a rip off to pay $700/month for a managed server

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TestSEO — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:35:45 -0000

have you use any new application for virtual Extreme

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Darren — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:25:00 -0000

Build it and they will come..... I hope.

Had to upgrade TwiTip a couple of weeks back too (although it started on dodgy hosting) and had similar 'its a gamble' thoughts - but I think it pays off. Extra page views from people who got frustrated before, perhaps a few extra subscribers, less headaches and distraction of having to manage a stressed out server etc.

Sounds like Inquisitr is getting some nice link love - hope it converts to a step up in baseline traffic!

Re: On servers and MediaTemple

EricFriedman — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:06:04 -0000

MT is great - using the $20 option, but it has been very nice. Checkout the referral links to perhaps help offset some of the costs. People always want to know where big sites are hosted and you may get some easy links by just throwing up your referral links back to MT. I got 2 this past year.

Re: On servers and MediaTemple

scotty — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:12:42 -0000

Wow. USD$750/month does seem quite expensive. My Drupal site does around 60k-80k page views per day and it runs perfectly fine on a $30/month self-managed VPS :)

Then again I don't get links from other popular sites nor do I have 200k page view days. I know having the capacity to handle those "fark'ed moments" can be very expensive, but hopefully it would be a worthwhile investment to build your kingdom.

Re: On servers and MediaTemple

Cheyne — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:49:59 -0000

I would recommend moving all of your static files - images, style sheets, etc over to a cdn (Amazon s3 would probably be the easiest and cheapest given your size).

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Mike — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:57:28 -0000

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m0nty — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:57:33 -0000

$750/month? Mate, managed servers are a ripoff. We pay much less than $200/month for our dedicated server that we manage ourselves. Of course you need to have the expertise.

Re: On servers and MediaTemple

Seanpercival — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:44:35 -0000

do you put anything on s3? i've found putting heavy content like images/css/js can help big time. Pretty cheap too.