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We are currently developing a couple EE sites on MediaTemple’s GridServers.

We are having so many performance issues that we think their platform should be renamed Grid Lock!

It seems every time we update the database from within EE (eg: saving a template, adding a new weblog or field, adding or editing entries) the server grinds to a halt. We then are left twiddling our thumbs until the server decides to work again.

Anyone else experiencing this at MediaTemple on their GS platform?

Any suggested fixes?

Anyone have an explanation as to why their GS platform is performing so poorly?

I think you will go from

Grid Server->Grid Lock->Good Luck!!

There are not many good things about the grid server unfortunately. Every single site that I know of that has ever been developed on their servers grinds to a complete halt before long.

We did have a site on there for a while but the admins were not very helpful at all so we never got it fixed. Hopefully other people on here might be able to offer some snippets of advice but mine would have to be steer clear unfortunately.

Hope you get it all sorted soon.

Best wishes,

Mark

MediaGirl, I have a few sites over there that will be moving over to EngineHosting as soon as I can get them over there.

There are days when things go OK, and then there are days when they don’t. I don’t have the same issues on the EH sites.

Hmm… I have a shared server site that I’m about to migrate. I hadn’t heard that GRID was a problem before.

I migrated a couple of sites away from (mt) when they switched to the Grid. Performance was horrible and through a few ‘fixes’ nothing changed. I tried out a DV server of theirs and performance was very spotty as well.  I’ve actually got one client that never switched to the Grid that is still with them - performance seems fine. It must be some old shared server sitting in a closet somewhere that they’ve forgotten about. It blows the Grid out of the water for performance though. I’m also always amazed at how much ‘planned maintenance’ downtime there is on the Grid. I thought that was the whole point, no downtime?

I’ve just started using EE. The only place I’ve been fiddling with it thus far is on mt’s GS. I’ve yet to have any such problems you’ve mentioned. Granted there’s sporadic timing out but it’s too scarce and short-lived to find frustrating. Then again the grid I’m developing on doesn’t have anything else on it that would be memory extensive, i.e. sites that use mysql, and if there are they’re only testing/staging sites gathering dust.

On a client’s grid they have a number of active sites that not only would grind to a halt on occasion, but ultimately required an upgrade to their memory container. I thought they had DV but I just confirmed they’re on a grid. Getting your own container and upgrading the amount of memory on it each had immediately noticable benefits… (you may as well start considering another hosting service?)

Does Media Temple have non-Grid servers? I just finished a site on an MT hosted server, not sure if it was grid or not, and had no problems (other than getting access to the server at the beginning of the project).

I don’t believe they offer non-grid hosting other than DV at this point. My client is still on a generic shared hosting that I never moved over to the grid - I’m curious how long it is until they force a migration. With the grid came higher prices, so I imagine when that day does come she will be moving somewhere else…

As far as I know, Media Temple is going to move to some type of cluster hosting in the future, away from the Grid. Least that’s the rumors.

Ouch. You have to wonder how many clients they lost with the Grid, and how many more they’ll lose with another major transition.  It’s a shame - they were a great company when I was with them.

Their website is nice at least 😉

I have a few sites on the (mt) Grid.  No problems that I have noticed, besides having to jump through some configuration hoops here and there.  Then again, my server and EE knowledge is fairly basic, so I might not be noticing some of the “issues”.