Media Temple Offers “Grid-Server” Hosting
So just this morning, a host by the name of “Media Temple” started offering a new type of hosting. They call it “Grid-Server” and it seems to be a system of web servers running in parallel.
It seems like one of those “why didn’t I think of that!” things (well, if you’re nerd, anyway). Most hosting services have single machines that will serve 5 or so users at once. The problem with these is that one user using many resources will slow down the rest of their neighbors’ sites too. I think this is what I’ve been doing with my sites…
The whole idea of the grid thing is that each user will be on one large group of computers. If a user doesn’t use many resources, great. If the user uses many, the grid can accommodate that. Maybe.
I’m really interested in this service and I might actually switch hosts. My host has been battling uptime for months now. I’m kind of getting tired of it. It really looks bad when Notecentric is down, since it’s supposed to let users access their notes ALL THE TIME.
In fact, I may just order the service right now, and switch when my other hosting runs out. But what should I put on the mt host? Hmm….
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Well, besides the obvious one, Notecentric. Maybe AnimeNano as well? I think Notecentric seems to be a more critical system due to the fact that it’s a service that needs to be up all the time. AnimeNano is great but I’m not sure it’s as critical as Notecentric due to the fact us anime bloggers have other sources. Now, I don’t want you to get me wrong. I love AnimeNano! It really helps with my blog traffic. Grid-Server really sounds like a cool idea.
The server virtualization tech looks great! I’m quite sure their servers will be able to take a massive slashdotting, but will your wallet be able to take it? From what I’ve read in their site, it seems they charge by proccessor time blocks (GPUs, in their terminology). I’m not sure how many blocks they give for free; so if you run over your monthly allotment, it could get quite expensive. And you’ll continue to bleed during the whole period, as the site is still serving requests at full throttle. It would be a good idea to take time to optimise the code for animenano & notecentric during this interim period before you switch over to them. (Maybe more smart caching code and the like for animenano?) More efficient code == more requests served per GPU. Sigh. So now we’ll have to monthly figures we’ll have to worry about – bandwidth, and proccessor time. Remember the processor timeslotting that had to be done if you wanted to run a computer program in the 1970s? Well, it feels like that.