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?”
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Hey Dan,
We’re just about to release info to all Grid customers about current GPU status, latest news on GPU calculations and our upcoming GPU reporting tool that will be in your AccountCenter. The upcoming GPU reporting tool will go far beyond the former analysis tool with detailed info on what processes are using the greatest amount of your GPU’s presented in an easy-to-use interface. You can keep checking our blog to see when this announcement is made.
While we’re getting this cool tool ramped up and tuning up our horns to make an announcement, I’d like to point out Ronald, an (mt) user, who wrote a great post on his experiences and methods of reducing GPU usage. I highly encourage you to check out this blog post from cavemonkey50.com: http://cavemonkey50.com/2007/04/lowering-my-gpu-usage-on-media-temples-grid-server/
We are also developing a “Reduce your GPU’s� section which will be a one stop shop for bloggers, developers and anyone who’d like to optimize for the (gs) Grid-Sever (or (dv), or perhaps somewhere else). Just to make it clear, optimizing your site in general is good practice, regardless of the platform being used.
So…if you or any of your readers have any questions, feel free to drop me a line at arman@mediatemple.net or post a comment here. I encourage and look forward to reading what’s on your minds about this whole GPU thing.
Thanks!
–Arman.
Thanks so much Arman!
I really appreciate you taking the time to post a comment; that’s phenomenal customer service. It’s just that sort of thing that endears a company to me.
I look forward to the new GPU tool immensely (I dig that sort of thing). If you need any beta testers, please let me know.
Also thanks for the link to Cavemonkey50; the lack of a robots.txt file wasn’t helping things here at Is There Food (and all the other Wordpress blogs I host). I’m already caching, and have already started to take steps to streamline the site.
I’ve also noticed the same problem with favicon.ico, so I’ve fixed that too, and left a comment on the other post pointing it out.
Once again, thank you.
Hi Dan,
sorry about the snafu between Google and DreamHost.
I’ll pass your blog post to the Google Checkout support team and hope it will be resolved promptly.
P@
Google Checkout API Evangelist
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