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For the past week I’ve been trying to get Dreamhost to give me an account. I paid through Google Checkout, and - for some bizarre reason - they’ve not handed any money over to Dreamhost yet.

Dreamhost think it’s Google’s fault, Google think it’s Dreamhost’s fault. Dreamhost won’t cancel the whole process and let me start from scratch. Google keep saying they’ll talk to Dreamhost.

It’s an impossible position, and incredibly frustrating. I thought I’d give Dreamhost the benefit of the doubt (after reading many negative comments online, but also many positives), but I’m starting to think it was a bad idea.

Regarding Media Temple - or (MT) as they like to be called - I’m impressed with every single aspect of their Grid service bar one: GPU.

After a month of running my Wordpress blog (this Wordpress blog here, the humble Is There Food) which gets a very modest amount of traffic, I’d eaten half of my monthly GPU allowance. Combine that with the fact that I hadn’t yet moved Gary’s Menori across, and that I have some future projects that will consume even more CPU time, and I’m a bit worried that I’ll soon be sailing over my 1000 GPU limit.

The GPU section of (MT)’s control panel is currently offline. According to the site, they’re making it more accurate; which should resolve many of the concerns that customers have with the GPU system. They can’t find out what’s eating their precious CPU time, so it makes optimisation a very difficult task indeed.

So, we’ll see what happens. If Google and Dreamhost can resolve whatever crazy issue they’ve got, maybe I’ll be able to dip my toe in that pool. And if (MT) sort out their GPU panel, I might be able to stick around for a bit.

More news as and when I have it.

And if someone from either Google Checkout or Dreamhost should happen to read this (fat chance, eh?): “HELP!”

And if someone from (MT) reads it: “What’s the deal with the new GPU panel?”