Okay, I’m not one to publicly rant but really, I’ve given up with the performance of MediaTemple’s GridServer implementation. More to the point the marketing and statements simply do not measure up to what actually has happened with this blog at Mediatemple. It’s not high load at all, never been dugg, slashdotted or anything else that might bring ill fate to a web site, however it’s been subject to outages last week and weekend. Maybe someone had tried deploying a facebook app using the same grid server cluster my site was on ? Who knows. But whatever happened to the “no single point of failure” and “rapid scaling”… ?

My particular favourite piece of copy is the “Guaranteed Resources” bit. Couple that with a sub par customer support response and the plug was pulled.

I do know personally of one other with a media temple account (who I had recommended MT), he’s serving static pages only and experiencing no troubles, so credit where credit is due. If you’re backing it with a database, be prepared…

Of course, now I’ve setup Murphy to come bit me in the ass with his law on my new host!.