Media Temple has been taking very good care of us here at TechCrunch. Lots of readers have been complaining about the ridiculously slow page loads over the last couple of months. Instead of doing a quick fix we’ve been talking with MT about how to fix the problem permanently. On Sunday night it happened. They now have us on a very cool new setup with two dedicated servers in their new data center in Los Angeles. We’ll write a long post on this later this week, but I wanted to let everyone who noticed know what’s going on. What I like most about it is that we can now handle massive traffic spikes for popular posts without slowing down much, if at all. And we can also now have much better screenshots without worrying about the page weight so much (or sneak-hosting them on Flickr). Thanks, Media Temple.
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Hi there Mike…
I have recently been testing various server configurations for our own php based site and also been trying to find figures pointing to how well php based systems (such as wordpress, you are wordpress right?) manage under load.
Any figures on how much traffic your two server setup will be able to handle? Did you have 1 dedicated server before or a shared setup?
Also, if its not too much trouble, roughly how much data do you transfer a month.
I know all applications are different, but this will give some clues!
Also, at the rate Techcrunch is growing, any idea when you will need to add more servers? Next month?
Never noticed the lag in page loads. But I have noticed the not so great screen shots.
But from what I read, those days are behind us.
H!
Awesome…….
But never say “permanently” when it comes to scalability issues. You’ve just postponed the issue.
No system is infinitely scalable – you just need to give yourself enough headroom so you can get enough work done before it stops scaling.
Congrats Mike. Any major reasons you chose MediaTemple over EV1?
congrats mike. Any major reasons you chose MT over EV1?
Did you ever post the long article you reference to?