TechCrunch reported on the launch of Media Temple’s new hosting service called Grid Server this morning. It promises to be a new kind of hosting platform that’s priced more like shared hosting ($20/month), but is instantly scalable on demand (more like Amazon’s EC3 computing service).
For $20/month you get 100 GB is storage and 1TB of bandwdth. If you have overages, they charge you incrementally. You can host up to a 100 sites and there’s an option for Ruby on Rails (but only 1 app per account it seems).
I’ve decided to give the Grid Server a spin with one of our projects. Signup was fairly easy, as was setup. I started with a 1-click install of a Wordpress installation and have played around a little bit since then. The control panel is quite intuitive. The site speed seems to be much faster than Dreamhost’s, but that might just be because it’s still a new service and they haven’t been stressed.
I’ll report my experiences after a few weeks/months after we test out the Grid-Server, its capabilities, speed, etc. It’s still too early to tell if the Media Temple Grid $20/mo. service will trump my Dreamhost Shared $8/mo. service (when it comes to real-world usage), but it really does look promising.
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Please keep us updated.
I’m especially interesed in the grid’s capabilities to withstand something like digg which I think is going to be the selling point for such systems.
MedaTemple grid service is spreading and I really dont’ know if thay will kepp up with so much customers :) but how are you doing so far? What is the url of that project?
Can’t give the URL quite yet. So far I haven’t been too impressed. The backend admin is a little confusing – it’s attractive, but I haven’t been able to add a new domain and have it work the way I want it to (we use our registrar’s DNS). I haven’t seen anything yet that would make it worth more than my Dreamhost hosting.
To be fair I haven’t really tested them or had an opportunity to stress it enough to see if what they claim is true.