Comments on: Media Temple (mt) Grid Server Outage

By: farouk

farouk — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:04:03 +0000

currently there is an outage at media temple , my website is now down for 2 continues Days!!!!

i have never seen such a down time anywhere in the world

By: david

david — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:22:24 +0000

well, it’s march 08, and they are still having “teething” problems with the GS. Every time they “upgrade” us to the mysql burst container, something goes horribly wrong, usually in reverting us, they take out the site for several hours to a day. I’m not sure why I’m still with them.

anyone know if their dedicated service is ok?

By: johno

johno — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:54:04 +0000

One year on, and Media Temple’s Grid Service is probably worse than ever. Yesterday my site was down for almost 8 hours. Today it’s off-line again and so is MT support. Looks like Media Temple is going into meltdown. It’s time to jump ship I think. No web site, no supprt…that’s not hosting, that’s a tvavesty, and I’m furious.

By: ATP

ATP — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:25:13 +0000

This was really a deplorable performance by mediatemple – they already have a really bad customer service and this brings into question their technical competence too:
http://pakistaniat.com/2007/12/01/atps-disappearance-no-we-were-not-blocked-or-hacked-not-yet/

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:12:48 +0000

Media Temple Down Again

The Nov 30th “maintenance” was supposed to be 1.5 hours, then they changed it to 6 and now “they don’t know” I am seriously pissed at these guys. I wasted over a hundred dollars in PPC clicks going to a site that isn’t there.

This massive outage is unacceptable I am definetly moving my servers elsewhere…

By: robert

robert — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:13:57 +0000

The Grid Server sucks!!!!!!!!!

4h 8m Down in Jan
4h 40m Down in Feb
15h 10m Down in Mar
8h 43m Down in just the first 5 days in April

Actual (mt) Media Temple (gs) Grid-Server Response Times

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p-Ab3UaY590VDhZCTaDinHg

By: qatari

qatari — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:53:20 +0000

Stay away from the Grid! It’s the most unstable platform since Windows 3.11!

Our site http://www.qatarliving.com keeps on dying each night…we were better off on a cheapo shared hosting plan!

By: The Media Temple Blog category they dont want to share with the public

The Media Temple Blog category they dont want to share with the public — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:44:38 +0000

Notice how media temple keeps this category off the main blog.

http://www.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-incidents/intermittent-latency-and-unavailability-on-gridcluster1/

By: The Host Guru » Blog Archive » The “Grid” is Falling…..The “Grid” is falling

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:28:10 +0000

[...] http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/11/29/media-temple-mt-grid-server-outage/ [...]

By: Hosting saga: support is everything at Growwwing

Hosting saga: support is everything at Growwwing — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:15:52 +0000

[...] So Media Temple is not the best hosting choice we have made. Even if it is for our closed beta version, the missing flexibility of being able to be root for your server and the November 28 problems were deal breakers (read the comments in this TechCrunch post to learn more about the product and problems they had). [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:16:48 +0000

oops, How I was kicked off the grid

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:16:29 +0000

The theory of the ‘Grid Server’ system is a good one and could be the future of hosting. With that in mind, I registered *today*. My static pages are fine but my blog database continually loses the connection – not sure if the database service is dying or what the problem is. I opened a ticket so we’ll see how long they take to respond and what the issue is. FYI I have *not* changed my DNS settings yet since MT is essentially down for me now.

I also signed up for BlueHost and migrated everything there today as well and the server (with colated MySQL) I’m on has been up and down all day too.

How does someone get good service? Do I need a static IP and a server here in my apartment? It all makes me want to find a new hobby…

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:28:18 +0000

The site went down again today and I called MT support and this was caused by the same Issue from Tuesday’s outage…

apparently, it wasn’t fixed…

This is really sad.. and I will definitely cancel my account if this happens again.

By: Grid Server Outage at Media Temple » Mitchelaneous

Grid Server Outage at Media Temple » Mitchelaneous — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:28:16 +0000

[...] Related Hosting Links: + Chris Pirillo Was Burned By the Outage As Well + Here is a Thread About the Situation at Web Hosting Talk + News Coverage of the Event Via Netcraft Tags: mt, media temple, hosting, data center, problems, servers, news Posted by Mitch > November 29th, 2006 at 12:00 pm [...]

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:18:52 +0000

I have a test account at MT as well and I’m averaging over 3 hours of downtime a month for static content, I hear if you have a dynamic site you may be expirience outages daily.

You can check out the article i wrote here:
http://www.thehostguru.com/2006/11/29/the-grid-is-fallingthe-grid-is-falling/

Ross
- http://www.thehostguru.com