Tag Archives: gridserver

Hosting gone bad: EVERYWHERE!!!

Signs of economic recession are hitting everywhere….even hosting services. It’s been a tough year for hosting provider. A lot of them have suffered from bad PR in different areas:
Rackspace: If last year’s catastrophe wasn’t enough, another one of Rackspace big named customer(37signals) suffered a two hour outage because of a bad load balancer.
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Icecrums is now powered by MediaTemple

I’ve switched from 1&1 to MediaTemple for my hosting needs. I’ve used 1&1 since 2004 and had good experiences with them. Now it’s time to grow up and use a real hosting provider. I am running on their GridServer (gs) which is a huge upgrade from 1&1 shared hosting. The future of hosting lies in [...]